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At the end of September 1918, the Allied launched a new offensive around Ypres. This marked the beginning of the end of WWI. The German troops felt cornered in Bruges and destroyed several bridges and railway bridges on 17 October. The next day, low-flying aircraft strafed and bombed the rest. The roads to Ghent were blocked with fleeing German vehicles and troops.
A memorial reminds us of this exodus from the Kruispoort, upon which the German soldiers blew up the bridge behind them. On 19 October, the last Germans left the city by Katelijne Gate. Bruges was liberated, but it would take until 11 a.m. on 11 November before the weapons in the Great War would be officially silent.
Ironically, German troops would march along the same Kruispoort into the city 22 years later, in 1940.
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