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Albert Derbecourt was a tragic Belgian civilian casualty of World War II. A prominent socialist author and activist in the region, he lost his life alongside his wife and young daughter during an Allied bombing raid on Kortrijk on Passion Sunday, which killed over 250 civilians.
As a student at the Ghent atheneum, he was a member of Paul Hoornaert's Légion nationale belge, and local leader of the youth department. Under the influence of Leo Poppe, Derbecourt transferred to Verdinaso as a law student in 1936 and became headman of the Ghent Dinaso students. Not long after, he was appointed to the editorial staff of Hier Dinaso!.From September 1941 he became editorial secretary of De Nationaal-Socialist, the weekly magazine of the Unity Movement-VNV. Week after week he published his confession of the New Order and also advocated the annexation of French Flanders and a restoration of the Seventeen Provinces. Together with editor-in-chief Albert Deckmyn he became a member of the Dietsch Oath Association. In Kortrijk, Derbecourt was cell leader of the German-Flemish Labor Community (DeVlag), for which he gave many speaking engagements. After Hendrik Elias' ban on dual membership in October 1943, Derbecourt resigned from DeVlag. He died together with his family in an Allied aerial bombardment.
As a student at the Ghent atheneum, he was a member of Paul Hoornaert's Légion nationale belge, and local leader of the youth department. Under the influence of Leo Poppe, Derbecourt transferred to Verdinaso as a law student in 1936 and became headman of the Ghent Dinaso students. Not long after, he was appointed to the editorial staff of Hier Dinaso!.From September 1941 he became editorial secretary of De Nationaal-Socialist, the weekly magazine of the Unity Movement-VNV. Week after week he published his confession of the New Order and also advocated the annexation of French Flanders and a restoration of the Seventeen Provinces. Together with editor-in-chief Albert Deckmyn he became a member of the Dietsch Oath Association. In Kortrijk, Derbecourt was cell leader of the German-Flemish Labor Community (DeVlag), for which he gave many speaking engagements. After Hendrik Elias' ban on dual membership in October 1943, Derbecourt resigned from DeVlag. He died together with his family in an Allied aerial bombardment.
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