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Belgium : “Foreign intelligence services do not understand that the neo-Nazi festival #Frontnacht is allowed to take place in #Ypres. This is apparent from my own research, which I reported today in Nieuwsblad and GvA”
This festival has been welcoming neo-nazis from all over Europe and former nazis since it’s inception, and has been allowed to take place for decades, under the cover of being a nationalist Flemish rally and a celebration of the dead from the First World War
IJzerbedevaart or The Yser Pilgrimage, in Dixmude, started out in the 20s, as a remembrance of the Flemish soldiers that died in WW1. It then grew into a Flemish nationalist gathering as time went by. During WW2, it still went on and was organized by the nazi occupying forces 
About 6 years ago we were in the final phase of the excavation between the Pilckem Road, Lancashire Farm and Fusilier Farm. We were able to excavate a vast British trench system before the land was turned into an industrial area.
#FWW #Archaeology #History #WW1
#FWW #Archaeology #History #WW1
Within the excavation area we expected to find parts of the support line (Headingley Lane) with a series of shelters, the reserve line (X-Line) and some of the communication trenches (Argyle Street) connecting these trench systems.
#FWW #Archaeology
#FWW #Archaeology
Headingley Lane was originally dug during the 2nd Ypres by French troops. When the British took over this sector they improved the line (more than once) and by doing this ‘erased’ the previous phase. The excavated trench was thus the latest version constructed with A-frames
