Belgian Congo

The Belgian Congo was a Belgian colony in Central Africa from 1908 until its conquest by the Greater Germanic Reich in 1944.
There was an attempt by French and Belgian authorities in the colony to set up a government-in-exile after the German conquest of their homeland in 1940, with the 13th Demi-Brigade of the Foreign Legion sent by Prime Minister Édouard Daladier of France to occupy Léopoldville.
In the following seven years, with secret investment from the United States and support from Free French forces in Equitorial Africa, the Congo's Force Publique was dramatically expanded to both secure the colony and provide resistance to German attempts to capture it. During this time there were a number of mutinies against Belgian authorities and these were often put down with loyalists within the gendarmie and Free French forces.
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