Jozef De Vroey (1912–1999) was a Catholic priest and child survivor of the 19 August 1914 Aarschot massacre that occurred in World War I during the rape of Belgium and whose book about this atrocity, Aarschot op Woensdag 19 Augustus 1914 (Aarschot on Wednesday, 19 August 1914) (published in 1964, republished in 2014), has been cited by many historians, including[1] Trinity College, Dublin, Professor Alan Kramer[2] in his 2002 Yale University Press published book German Atrocities, 1914: A History of Denial[3] that he co-wrote with John N. Horne.
After World War II, De Vroey, also, published a book about the life, exploits and execution of Belgium spy Jozef Raskin.
His father was one of the victims of the Aarschot massacre after he was shot and killed by German soldiers during World War I in 1914.
De Vroey was barely three years old when his father died, and it influenced his attitude to Germans.
Then he was a religious teacher, two years in secondary education in Westerlo and Aarschot and from 1959 to 1974 in the Atheneum [nl] in Leuven.