CegeSoma – Centre for Historical Research and Documentation on War and Contemporary Society

The Research- and Documentation Centre for the History of the Second World War in Belgium was created on 13 December 1967, with the aim to “take all necessary measures to inventory, safeguard and select all documents or archives related to the Second World War in Belgium, including the period leading up to the war and the consequences” (Belgisch Staatsblad-Moniteur Belge, 10 February 1968, n° 29, p. 1259-1261).