PODCAST. François Igosse (93) was a child in a family of collaborators. “After the liberation my war began” | Exclusively for subscribers

October 1929. The Wall Street Stock Exchange collapses in New York. The crisis, with its seeds in the First World War, is dragging the world into misery and poverty. US banks are asking for the money they lent to Europe after the armistice back. It plunges the Germany of those years into a hopeless crisis with a tsunami of layoffs and bankruptcies. It is in this context that Adolf Hitler seduces an increasing number of people with his extreme speech. Even in Flanders. François Igosse grew up around Ghent during those turbulent 1930s.