ABSTRACT
In the Flemish cultural journal Warande en Belfort (1967) Gust De Muynck 1 conveyed an emotional portrait of his brother-in-law in his contribution “Rik de Man. De tragedie van een vervreemding” [Rik de Man. Tragedy of a divestment]. 2 The article figured among the successive attempts by the family and friends to rehabilitate the Belgian socialist politician and theoretician Hendrik de Man after so many years among the general public and the Belgian establishment, which after the Second World War had sentenced him in absentia for collaborating with the Nazi forces of occupation.
