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![]() ![]() ![]() After the forced dissolution of the Vlaams Blok, the Vlaams Belang, finding a voice in these novels in the vocal group of like-minded individuals, used as the foundations of the party the grievances of those who were persecuted at the end of World War II. These types of novels continued to be published into the 1980s including Hugo Claus’s Het verdriet van België (The Sorrow of Belgium, 1983) and Louis-Paul Boon’s Hij was een zwarte (He Was a Collaborator, 1986). Novels such as Gerard Walschap’s Zwart en wit (Black and White, 1948) accused the Catholic teachers of brainwashing students to support overt nationalist thinking. ![]() But, for a particular group of nationalists, as more French-speakers vilified the collaborators, the myths of persecution grew eventually serving to strengthen the political platforms on the right. ![]() Those who had family members who collaborated were often ashamed of this history and, in general, there was a palpable loathing directed toward those who collaborated with the Nazi Party, no matter how altruistic those individuals believed their actions to be. After World War II ended, many of the Flemish wished to forget the history of collaboration. ![]()
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