THE DUTCH, THE GERMANS, & THE JEWS.(Dutch-Nazi collaboration)

History Today, June, 1999 by Brinks, Jan Herman

Jan Herman Brinks examines the Dutch myth of resistance and finds collaboration with the Nazis went right to the top.

Careful readers of the compelling diary of Anne Frank might notice that her hiding place was betrayed to the Nazis by Dutch neighbours, without drawing wider conclusions about the behaviour of Dutch people during the occupation by the Third Reich.

In the light of recent revelations of Dutch complicity in the acquisition of Jewish money, artworks and other treasure by the Nazis, contemporary Dutch historians are engaged in a wholesale revision of the relationship between the Netherlands and the Hitler regime.

This introspection has been overdue for a long time. Contrary to popular belief, a far from harmless...

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