Unrecorded WW II Liberation Proclamation: “This is the day you have so long hoped for: Belgium, with liberty, will be returned to the Belgians: the Allied Armies have crossed the border.”

[World War II] Prime Minister Hubert Pierlot. Proclamation. Printed broadside. 50.5 x 52 cm. [London?]: [No publication information] 1944. Black printing on white paper. Old fold lines and small marginal tears, otherwise very good. Text repeated in French and Dutch.

Rare. OCLC lists no holdings. There are no copies at the Library of Congress or the Marshall Center, the Eisenhower Library or the National Archives online listings. The Prime Minister invokes the fight to come: "Alongside our Allies, Belgian Air, Land and Sea forces are taking part in the decisive battle for the independence of our country. Soon they will give the hand to the Fighters of the Inner Front and to all those who, braving the inhuman rigors of the occupier, have contributed to the use and destruction of his power." The date 9/44 is in the lower left corner. The liberation of Belgium began in September 1944, when the British Second Army liberated Antwerp, the US First Army liberated the region south of Brussels and Masstricht. Prime Minister Pierlot led the government in exile. Great display piece.