26/6/2025 20u

Het Groot Ongelijk, Diestsesteenweg 97, Kessel-Lo

During the Second World War, the SNCF was guided by a French state which advocated collaboration with the nazis. But railway workers were essential to the Resistance. By spreading false information, blowing up railway tracks and organizing sabotage, they greatly hampered the Germans. It was also thanks to their strike of August 10, 1944 that they precipitated the popular insurrection which led to the Liberation of Paris. However, they paid a heavy price for these actions, with several hundred victims in their ranks.