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The medal was instituted at the end of the Second World War and awarded to members of the resistance who belonged to the Belgian National Movement (French: Mouvement National Belge). The MNB / BNB was founded on December 17, 1940 by Aimé Dandoy and became one of the most important Belgian resistance groups of the Second World War with about 30,000 active members, almost half of whom were active in armed combat. It was a politically conservative organization that was active throughout Belgium. Several hundred members were killed in action, arrested, deported to concentration camps or summarily executed. Among other things, the movement was involved in the hiding and repatriation of crashed Allied air crews.
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