De Slag om Leuven

Germany invaded Belgium on 10 May 1940. A week later, on May 17, 1940, after days of intense fighting, the German army captured Leuven. It was the start of a period of more than 4 years of occupation of the city. In the spring of 1944, when the Allied forces launched the offensive, liberation seems near. But the price that the civilian population of Leuven pays is very heavy .