Today’s Belgian Radio and its predecessors have been accompanying events in East Belgium since 1945. First as Émissions en Langue Allemande (ELA), then as Belgischer Hörfunk (BHF) and now as Belgischer Rundfunk (BRF), it has provided information in German.
To mark the occasion, the BRF launched a series of programmes in which Els Herrebout (director of the State Archives in Eupen), Frederik Schunck (former journalist with the Belgian Broadcasting Corporation), Werner Miessen (philologist) and Klaus-Dieter Klauser (honorary president of the Historical Association Zwischen Venn und Schneifel in Sankt Vith) looked back on the years since 1945. They used audio documents, recorded written sources, looked at important events and described and interpreted the events and developments in and for East Belgium, Belgium, and Europe. The result is an interesting series of broadcasts in which one year will be examined in detail every day between 17 June 2020 and 30 September 2020.
All the contributions of the series can be found in 75 years of BRF (in German only).