MN 7: The Belgian military wireless station at Baarle-Duc (Baarle-Hertog), World War I

An unknown episode in the Great War

It was right under the noses of the Germans that Lieutenant Paul Goldschmidt, engineer, and his team installed this Belgian military station of wireless radiotelegraphy and goniometry at Baarle-Duc (Baarle-Hertog), a small Belgium village enclave in the neutral Netherlands. Despite infuriating the Germans the station functioned, without interruption, from 1915 until the end of the war. The goniometric station would identify the origin of enemy signals (especially those of Zeppelins). An unpublished manuscript relates the messages picked up by the station between the 6th and 23rd November 1918. It is a genuine instant of the elaboration and the implementation of the armistice.