1941 in Belgium
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- Monarch: Leopold III (prisoner)[1]
- Prime Minister: Hubert Pierlot (in exile)
- Head of the occupying Military Administration in Belgium and Northern France: Alexander von Falkenhausen
- Head of the administrative staff of the Occupation: Eggert Reeder
Events
- 1 January – Léon Degrelle calls on Belgians to collaborate with Nazi Germany.[2]: 850
- 14 January – Radio Belgique launches V for Victory campaign.[2]: 850
- 21 January – Belgian government in exile reaches an agreement with the United Kingdom that Belgian Congo will become part of the Sterling area and enter the war on the allied side.[2]: 850
- 3 March – Dedicated Dutch-language Radio België begins broadcasting from London.[2]: 850
- 25 March – Twenty leading figures from the vicinity of Liège taken hostage in retaliation to sabotage of the railway, including former government minister of public works, Jules Joseph Merlot.[2]: 852
- 5 May – Flemish collaborationist organisations Vlaams Nationaal Verbond and Verdinaso, and the Flemish section of the Rexist Party, sign an agreement to merge.[2]: 851
- 16 May – Anniversary of the German invasion marked by strikes.[2]: 851
- 22 June – 337 left-wing activists arrested to prevent.[2]: 851
- 25 November – Université libre de Bruxelles closes to protest plans to appoint pro-German professors.[2]: 852
- 6 December – King Leopold marries Lilian Baels in captivity.[2]: 850
