According to the official website of National Geographic, Leopold was known for forming the Congo Free State after taking over the African land. He received financial support from the Belgian ...

Another pole is decorated with a fist clenched in defiance reminiscent of the black power symbol but also one of most chilling aspects of Leopold’s vicious plunder of the Congo. Belgian ...

but it was King Leopold II of Belgium who took a more personal approach—pouring his own fortune into the Congo. He carefully portrayed himself as a humanitarian, even as his real intentions were ...

Belgium's colonial strategy had ... A well known example of these horrors is when King Leopold II transformed the so-called 'free state' of Congo into his personal fiefdom, claiming 10 million ...

King Leopold III of Belgium returned to Brussels on July 22, 1950, after six years of exile. BELGA/AFP Remaining the king of the Belgians at all costs, even under Nazi domination, was the goal of ...

The international response to the cruel treatment of Africans forced King Leopold II to make the Congo Free State a colony of Belgium. It was then known as the Belgian Congo, until it gained its ...

There Leopold III had in to dinner that night British ... undecided about “Hands off the Belgian Congo!” Contact us at [email protected] ...

Tom and Dominic set out on their shocking journey into the history of the subjugation of the Congo Free State to the monstrous King Leopold of Belgium.