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The analysis is based on original press documents mainly from the daily press, the collaborators and the clandestine, representing the large ideological streams in French-speaking Belgium, but only about the bombing of the second stage i.e. 1943/1944.
In that period, there is only a propagandist press, in favor of the Germans or of the Allies.
The  “officialâ€� sources are the newspapers controlled by the Germans. These newspapers use the results of the Anglo-American bombings on the Belgian towns (dead, wounded persons, destructions…) in order to make anti-Allies propaganda.
On the other hand, the few clandestine newspapers, distributed in all the country, justify the Allies bombings as a strategy aiming only at purely military targets. They present the air raids of the Allies as necessary stages towards the liberation so as to encourage, to give hope, to cheer populations up.