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Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-) Calendar

Maudsley hacked at Roberts' skull with a makeshift dagger and then struck his head against the wall multiple times. Maudsley calmly walked into the prison officer's room, placed the dagger on the table and told him that the next roll call would be two short. Before Maudsley had already killed murderer Salney Darwood in his cell.
(29 july 1978)

Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar 1988

There are 3359 births, 3910 deaths, 1122 murders, 494 disasters and 2071 other events about 5713 people in 6416 places until today.

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Breendonk KZ

Breendonk, Antwerpen, Belgium.

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Friday 20th of September 1940 (x) — The one and only concentration camp for Belgium is inaugurated by SS-Sturmbannführer and commandant of Fort Breendonk Philipp Schmitt
Initially prisoners were petty criminals, people deemed anti-social or trespassers of the new race laws. Later on resistance fighters, political prisoners and innocent hostages were detained as well. Another section was used as a transit camp for Jews being sent to death camps such as Auschwitz.