IJzerbedevaart

This pilgrimage remembers the Flemish soldiers who died while serving in the Belgian Army during the First World War and was first organised in 1920.

Because of this link that stills goes on, Diksmuide became a gathering place of neo-Nazis from all over Europe during the weekend of the IJzerbedevaart.

The Committee organising the IJzerbedevaart answered by making its message more radical and more modern at the same time.

They tried to do this by clearly stressing the original aims dating back to the First World War (No more War, Autonomy and Truce of God), and by rephrasing these aims to values of present-day interest (Peace, Freedom and Tolerance).

Some participants did not agree with both the abolishing of the Second World War blemish and the rephrasing of the message.