What the records say
- When
- May 1941
- Kind
- Strike
- Coordinates
- 48.82° N, 3.33° E
- Description
- 1941 strike in German-occupied Belgium
Placed at the middle of the 2 countries Wikidata lists.
Strike of the 100,000
1941 strike in German-occupied Belgium
The Strike of the 100,000 was an 8-day strike in German-occupied Belgium that took place from 10 to 18 May 1941. It was led by Julien Lahaut, head of the Belgian Communist Party even though the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact was still in force. The object of the strike was to demand a wage increase, but it was also an act of passive resistance to the German occupation.
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- Wikidata: riots, protests, strikes and revoltsWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “la grève des 100 000 s'étend dans le Hainaut et le Limbourg”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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