The story of Barak 15: “Everyone had to go into the mine together after WWII. Ordinary Belgians, German soldiers and collaborators”
1942. The German occupier has a whole series of wooden barracks built in Beringen, surrounded by barbed wire, to house Russian prisoners of war. They were forced to work in the mines during WWII. Until the war was over. Then it was the turn of the German soldiers themselves, together with convicted collaborators as a form of Wiedergutmachung. But also ordinary Belgians. Anyone who had ever been a miner was forced to return to work underground, because enormous amounts of coal were needed to rebuild the country. Friend and enemy working together, with pickaxes and jackhammers: an explosive cocktail…
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