Saved by the House of Orange: the Mayor-Spy of Hamont
Saved by the House of Orange: the Mayor-Spy of Hamont
In 1915, the Germans closed off the border between Belgium and the neutral Netherlands with the 'Wire of Death'. Clandestine attempts to scale this high voltage fence were extremely dangerous: if you were not electrocuted, you risked being shot by German border guards. But this did not deter all refugees, or indeed spies, from trying to reach the Netherlands. They were helped by people living on the border, such as Louis Keunen, the mayor of the Limburg border community Hamont.
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