Albert i of belgium
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Roger P. Minert, In Harm’s Way: East German Latter-day Saints in World War II (Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2009), 75-86.
The last Sunday of August, as we came out of sacrament meeting, we were met by an unusual sight. Marching down the middle of the street was a group of German soldiers, not in any parade uniform, but in combat clothes, singing as they went. People on both sides of the street went berserk. They waved, threw kisses, laughed, and sang with the soldiers. A current of excitement filled the air, making my own heart pound faster. . . . Everywhere I looked, happy faces beamed—until I looked at my mother. She gathered [my sister] Esther and me close to her, as if trying to protect us from the scene. “Here they are going to war, joyful and laughing. When they come home there will be nothing but misery.”[1]
Such was the recollection of Karola Hilbert regarding the beginning of World War II in Berlin. She was nine years old on the Sunday in question—August 27, 1939—the day after the last American missionaries had departed the East G
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Leopold II: Belgium 'wakes up' to its bloody colonial past
BBC News
Inside the palatial walls of Belgium's Africa Museum stand statues of Leopold II - each one a monument to the king whose rule killed as many as 10 million Africans.
Standing close by, one visitor said, "I didn't know anything about Leopold II until I heard about the statues defaced down town".
The museum is largely protected by heritage law but, in the streets outside, monuments to a monarch who seized a huge swathe of Central Africa in 1885 have no such security.
Last week a statue of Leopold II in the city of Antwerp was set on fire, before authorities took it down. Statues have been daubed with red paint in Ghent and Ostend and pulled down in Brussels.
Leopold II's rule in what is now Democratic Republic of Congo was so bloody it was eventually condemned by other European colonialists in 1908 - but it has taken far longer to come under scrutiny at home.
Last week thousands in the countr
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Leopold II of Belgium
King of the Belgians from 1865 to 1909
| Leopold II | |||
|---|---|---|---|
Portrait by Alexander Bassano, c. 1889 | |||
| Reign | 17 December 1865 – 17 December 1909 | ||
| Predecessor | Leopold I | ||
| Successor | Albert I | ||
| Prime ministers | |||
| Reign | 1 July 1885 – 15 November 1908 | ||
| Governors-general | |||
| Born | (1835-04-09)9 April 1835 Brussels, Belgium | ||
| Died | 17 December 1909(1909-12-17) (aged 74) Laeken, Brussels, Belgium | ||
| Burial | Church of Our Lady of Laeken | ||
| Spouses | |||
| Issue Detail | |||
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| House | Saxe-Coburg and Gotha | ||
| Father | Leopold I of Belgium | ||
| Mother | Louise of Orléans | ||
| Signature | |||
Leopold II[a] (9 April 1835 – 17 December 1909) was the second King of the Belgians from 1865 to 1909, and the founder and sole owner of the Congo Free State from 1885 to 1908.
Born in Brussels as the second but eldest-surviving son o
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