Organisation Militaire Belge de Résistance

The Belgian Military Organisation of Resistance (French: Organisation Militaire Belge de Résistance) or OMBR was a group within the Belgian resistance in German-occupied Belgium during World War II. It remained a reasonably small organisation throughout the war, comprising a total of 3,112 men and women.[1] The acronym of the group was deliberately chosen as a homophone of the French word ombre meaning "shadow".

Belgian Military Organisation of Resistance
OMBR
Organisation Militaire Belge de Résistance
Dates of operation1940–1944
Active regionsBelgium
Size3,112 (total)

History

Founded in 1940, the group only adopted the acronym OMBR in July 1942.[2] The group's motto was "Better to die than to betray"[note 1] and its vow "I swear to be faithful to the country, to observe the laws and constitution of the Belgian people, to obey my superiors and never to betray."[3]

Notable members
  • Herman Bodson – Belgian mineralogist, later author of a number of books about the Belgian resistance.
  • G. Allaert, Commandant of the OMBR in 1944

Notes
  1. « Mieux vaut mourir que trahir »

References
  1. "Souvenir et Memoire" (PDF). www.bel-memorial.org. p. 2. Retrieved 29 December 2012.
  2. Le livre d'or de la Résistance belge, publié par le Ministère de la Défense nationale, Les éditions Leclercq, Bruxelles, 1949, p.144
  3. Le livre d'or de la Résistance belge, publié par le Ministère de la Défense nationale, Les éditions Leclercq, Bruxelles, 1949, p.147


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