Sentenced to death and almost executed – twice!

Paul Deman the winner of the first Ronde van Vlaanderen -sentenced tobdeath and almost executed twice!

Paul Deman was the first winner of the Ronde van Vlaanderen (1913). During the WW1 he was working as a courier for underground resistance movements and carrying messages around Belgium and also in the Netherlands. In November 1918 he had already 14 successful missions, but unfortunately on the 15th, he was stopped by the Germans. … Read more