us-005578-irn1004408
type: RecordSet
date: 10/23/1944, October 1944
has or had holder: us-005578
has or had identifier: 2
has or had identifier: 1
has or had some members with language: Silent
has record set type: Item
identifier: irn1004408
scope and content: A crowd of Belgians, many of them children, watch as an accused collaborator named Frederick Abiehausen is forced to clean the shoes of a uniformed member of the Belgian resistance group L'Armee Blanche, in front of a building that the group has seized as their headquarters. According to the Imperial War Museum catalog record, Abiehausen was arrested for betraying three Allied airman who were in hiding from the Germans. CUs of Abiehausen polishing the boots of the man, who smokes a pipe. The crowd of children jeers and laughs.
title: Belgian collaborator forced to polish boots