ALbert I from the grave must of disowned his cowardly son.
http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1940/may40/f28may40.htm
Belgian King surrenders country
Tuesday, May 28, 1940 www.onwar.com
In Belgium... King Leopold agrees to the surrender of the Belgian army without consulting the other Allies or his government (now in Paris). The capitulation becomes effective at 1100 hours.
On the Western Front... Before the Belgian capitulation becomes effective at 1100 hours, these is a desperately hurried redeployment of the British and French forces that prevents the Germans from reaching Nieuport, and from there the Dunkirk beaches. A corps of French 1st Army is holding out in Lille but they are now cut off from the main British and French forces in the evacuation area. The evacuation continues, with 17,800 men being brought off at the cost of one destroyer and several other vessels. There is fierce fighting around Cassel and Poperinghe where Rundstedt’s men again press forward.
I will never understand why Leopold wasn’t tried for treason.
Not really...
Look at it from the Belgians point of view.
4/5ths of the country is over-run, the army is exhausted after 18 days of constant fighting, out of ammunition, disorganized, and taking huge losses.
The defense plans of the Belgians fell apart when the vaunted “Impregnable” Fort system was captured on Day one.
What’s left to die for?