Fort Eben-Emael, built by Belgium between 1931 and 1935 to guard the Albert Canal and the Dutch border, fell to a German glider assault on 10 May 1940 — seventy-eight paratroopers neutralized a garrison of over 1,200 men in under twenty-four hours, a humiliation that prompted significant rethinking of fixed fortification doctrine across NATO planning circles for decades afterward.
The EuroSouvenir program issues these zero-denomination notes under license as legal collector pieces, printed by Oberthur Fiduciaire on genuine banknote paper with a hologram strip to meet the program's authentication standards. They carry no monetary value but are technically indistinguishable in construction from circulating issues.
Fort Eben-Emael, built by Belgium between 1931 and 1935 to guard the Albert Canal and the Dutch border, fell to a German glider assault on 10 May 1940 — seventy-eight paratroopers neutralized a garrison of over 1,200 men in under twenty-four hours, a humiliation that prompted significant rethinking of fixed fortification doctrine across NATO planning circles for decades afterward.
The EuroSouvenir program issues these zero-denomination notes under license as legal collector pieces, printed by Oberthur Fiduciaire on genuine banknote paper with a hologram strip to meet the program's authentication standards. They carry no monetary value but are technically indistinguishable in construction from circulating issues.