The Dutch Antilles during World War II
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- Опубликовано: 29 дек 2023
- The Dutch Antilles, which were a group of islands in the Caribbean Sea that were part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, played a role during World War II, primarily due to their strategic location and the importance of their oil refineries. The Dutch Antilles, particularly the islands of Aruba and Curaçao, had significant oil refineries. These refineries were important for the Allies because they could provide refined oil products for their war effort. Control over these refineries was crucial, as they could affect the supply of oil to both military and civilian sectors. At the beginning of World War II, the Netherlands declared themselves neutral, just like they had during World War I. However, this neutrality was challenged when Nazi Germany invaded the Netherlands in May 1940. The Dutch Antilles were still under Dutch control, and their strategic significance made them potential targets for both Axis and Allied forces.
After the fall of the Netherlands, the Dutch Antilles came under the control of the Dutch government-in-exile, which had fled to London. This government maintained control over the islands and their resources, including the oil refineries. The Allies, particularly the United States, saw the importance of these refineries and established a presence on the islands to safeguard them. The United States established military bases and installations on Aruba and Curaçao to protect the oil refineries and ensure they remained operational. These bases included airfields and naval facilities. The islands' location in the Caribbean also allowed for increased patrols and anti-submarine operations in the region. The Caribbean Sea was a key area for submarine warfare during World War II. German U-boats targeted Allied shipping lanes, attempting to disrupt the flow of supplies to Europe. The Dutch Antilles' proximity to these shipping lanes meant that they were at risk of U-boat attacks. The Allies established a naval presence to counter this threat and protect their interests. The oil refineries on Aruba and Curaçao played a significant role in supplying the Allies with refined oil products. These products were essential for powering vehicles, aircraft, and machinery crucial to the war effort. The Dutch Antilles thus indirectly contributed to the success of the Allies. Learn about the Dutch Antilles during World War II.
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There is a small monument to the US servicemen who died on Curacao located at the US Consulate General in Willemstad and another at the US cemetery in the Blau Bai area. The USS Erie, a large patrol gunboat, was torpedoed by a U-Boat and beached with several dead US sailors. It was eventually towed to Willemstad for scrapping. Most of today's international airports in the Caribbean islands and countries bordering the Caribbean originated as US ferry or patrol bases.
Very interesting part of the war!
My grandfather worked at the American refinery on Aruba for thirty years. I recall him telling me that a German sub lobbed a few shells from its deck gun but didn't hit anything important.
I was surprised this wasn't mentioned.
One of the German submarines started to shell one of the refineries using their main deck gun. Of course at night. For some reason, the breech plug blew out of the breech, creating a massive fireworks display on the deck and showing exactly where the sub was. The skipper hastily submerged, turned tail and ran. Not that I blame him. Being on the surface a mile or two off an enemy island, and having the deck gun inoperative is not a good place to be.
My Dad was there at that time and the rumor was they forgot to remove the muzzle plug.
Thank you for these presentations of how the unoccupied Dutch territories fared during the war.
Amazing story that i never heard before. Great video thank you for the knowledge
Good video. I like these offbeat topics. Prior to WWII Venezuela was the world's largest oil *exporter* . By a lot. In 1928, Venezuela surpassed the US as the world’s largest oil exporter, and by 1936, it was exporting almost as much oil as the next seven exporters combined-the United States, Peru, Iran, Romania, the Dutch East Indies, Iraq, and the Soviet Union (43.05 million tons versus 44.39 million tons). Venezuela was Britain's largest supplier of oil; Venezuela’s market share rose from 17 per cent to 49 per cent during the 1930s. And Venezuelan oil was cheap. In 1932 the US imposed tariffs of Venezuelan oil that resulted in exports shifting from the US, where the majority of its output went, to Europe and elsewhere. Refineries were built in the Antilles instead of Venezuela for two reasons, one geographic and the other political. The port nearest Venezuela's oil fields was quite shallow. Smaller coastal tankers shuttled the oil to the Antilles for storage, refining, and onward shipment by deep-water tankers - it's more cost efficient to transport refined oil and many of its products than crude. Being under Dutch rule the risk of Shell's facilities being nationalised was low. On 1 Sep 1939 the Netherlands' merchant fleet was almost 2.7 million gross registered tons (1523 ships greater than 100 GRT) , about one-third the size of America's (the world's second largest), making it the world's seventh largest. 107 of these Dutch ships were oil tankers of 1000 GRT and larger for a total of 537,564 GRT. By both number and GRT, the Netherlands had the world's fourth largest fleet of oil tankers after the UK, US, and Norway. It was the Norwegian (262) and Dutch (107) oil tankers that proved vital to Britain in 1940 and 1941.
TY! Fantastic detail and v interesting history!
I'm a 1940s numismatic collector and came across some of these coins but hadn't known the history. Thats why I'm a coin collector, it's tangible history that out lives those that lived it. I'm making a collage of us homefront history, historical rabbit hole galore!!! Thank you for the historical views of lessor known history.
Thanks for watching!
Would be interesting making a video about the Dutch influence still present today in the Caribbean islands.
Very strategic of you to travel to the Caribbean during the winter to inform us of the events of WW2 in the Dutch Antilles.
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Really interesting! Nice work!! However, I noticed a mistake: Boy Ecury was not born on Bonaire, but on Aruba. They recently made a mural painting of him in San Nicolas, Aruba. Rwally beautiful!
Thanks for replying. I stand corrected.
I really like your videos about the Dutch antilles and Suriname!
Great! Thanks. Cheers from Lima 🇵🇪
@@HistoryHustle gelukkig Nieuwjaar!
Thank you for also mentioning George Maduro whose parents created Madurodam to honour his bravery in perpetual memory
Thanks for watching.
Wow, that oil statistic is a particularly interesting factoid of which I was unaware!
Thanks for watching.
My great grandfather was an engineer, he worked on the construction of the refinery before the war.
Thanks for sharing.
I have been trying to learn more about the Caribbean during ww2 especially the major colonies. Great video!
Great!
Happy New Year, and thank you for another year of great history documentaries!
The Dutch resistance is underestimated. Some of us in Australia remember you!!
See my video on the topic:
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Wow! Never realised German U Boats went to that ‘neck of the woods’. Very interesting 👌
Thanks for watching!
U-Boats operated in the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico. Although it would have been at the limits of their patrol range.
Very interesting topic. Happy new year Stefan!
Thanks Artur for your long going appreciaton. Best wishes for 2024 🎆
And again I learn new things here 👍
Greets from Grun' 🇳🇱, TW.
Thanks. Cheers from Lima 🇵🇪
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Oh jij spreekt nog Gronings? Een germaanse friessaksische taal? Blijkbaar hebben de nazirestantjes in groningen nog wat westerse vrijheid en democratie nodig. Groet'n uut pekel
My father was born in 1944 in Curacao and George Maduro was the son of one of my grandfather’s cousins. It’s quite fascinating to learn about the Antilles’ involvement in WWII. Great video, you have a new subscriber 👍🏼
Awesome. Welcome to the channel!
Excellent. Thanks. BZ
Apparently they were quite grateful to the Americans
Franklin Delano Roosevelt House was built and given to the USA as a token of appreciation.
Mooie en zeer informatieve video! Je hebt altijd de onderwerpen uit WO2 die erg onderbelicht zijn en maakt daar leuke korte documentaires over.
Bedankt Matthijs. Goed 2024 gewenst.
Happy New Year Stefan 👍 Thank you for sharing your insights and knowledge ✌🏻🫶🏻
Many thanks for your reply and generous donations thoughout the year. Happy NYE and best wishes for 2024m
I really enjoy your Dutch focused history videos because they offer a much overlooked perspective of history. Most historical media in the English language are British centric until the 1940s when the focus moves to the US.
Thanks for your reply. Glad you like it.
Maduro family is from portuguese descent. They are sephardic jewish. The family went to the Netherlands after the expulsion of the jews in the 16th century. It is interesting that Portugal has a small park like the Madurodam, it is 'Portugal for kids' (Portugal dos Pequenitos) in Coimbra made in the 60s of the last century. It is different from Madurodam, because the buildings are bigger and share some building materials with the real monuments and buildings (usually picturesque houses from the different regions of the country) that they represent. Only the kids can get inside and come to the window! It is like a cozy neighbourhood where the kids own their own houses!
Thanks for sharing this additional information.
well done, plus looks like you made it to the Caribbean to shoot some of your footage!!
Super wonderful narration and wonderful historical coverage episode about Antilles islands that belonged to Dutch colonials in South East Asia. Thank you for an amazing ( history Hustle) channel... happy new year for respectful 🙏 Sir Stefan
Amazing video. Dankewell for such a great content.
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SS Pedernales was a tanker that was torpedoed by a Gernan U-boat off Aruba on 16 February 1942. The damaged midsection was cut off, and the fore and aft ends reattached. The damaged midsection is now a well known diving spot on Aruba. There is not much to see there though, as sea currents have largely destroyed what as left of the midsection. The few chunks of metal on that location, don't even look like they once belonged to a ship.
SS Antilla was a German ship that was about to be captured by Dutch Marines, after The Netherlands was invaded by Germany in 1939. If the capture was successful, SS Antilla was to become the first war prize taken from Germany. The ship's crew managed to scuttle the ship though, and it still lies off the coast of Aruba at Malmok. Part of the structure can be seen from the shore, and contrary to SS Perdernales, it's the largest and best preserved diving wreck in the Carribbean.
My father was actually walking two of her nieces (I wasn't born yet) at Corredor in Curacao, and a German torpedo hit ground and exploded not far from where they were walking. A ship, possibly a tanker, was hit while they were enjoying their walk, and one of the stray torpedoes hit the beach close to where my Dad was walking his nieces.
In one of my History Books there was also a picture of a German stray torpedo on an Aruban Beach, with 2-3 US Servicemen standing over it.
I actually went to school with Boy Ecury's nephew. He was named after his Uncle. Boy Ecury was from Aruba btw.
Thanks for taking the time to write this down.
@@HistoryHustlemy pleasure. Thank you for your great posts.
Wow! Thanks 4 the video, very interesting
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Curaçao & Surinam also played a very important but understated role as a destination point for Lithuanian and Polish Jews during ww2. The Dutch Honorary Consul and Chiune Sugihara issued these visas transiting through Japan. You can Google the story by the Japanese diplomat’s name. The Dutch Antilles saved many Jewish lives, even if most ultimately went to other places. Thanks for your video!
This is a great video providing very interesting lessor known history. Thank you.
Thanks for watching.
Really fascinating. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for watching!
You are my fave Dutch historian, great love and good wishes from your Australian cousin!!
Many thanks and I believe it is 2024 at your side already. Happy new year 🎆
Mooi dat dit aandacht krijgt! In 2014 is hierover ook een boek verschenen; "De Antillen in de Tweede Wereldoorlog" van Jos Rozenburg. Zeker de moeite waard als dit onderwerp je interesseert. Zoals al een paar keer gemeld in de comments kwam Boy Ecury van Aruba en niet van Bonaire.
Dank voor je bericht.
Great to see you in the Tropics Stefan.
We know now that occupation by the Japanese or Germans would have been very uncomfortable.
I'm sure you know that the Japanese Invasion Force destined for Australia was destroyed at the Battle of the Coral Sea.
After the example of Manchuria and other places, they were most unwanted.
The fuel that you mention was obviously vital.
Thanks for the post. 🙏🇦🇺
There was never an invasion force headed for Australia.
Nice work Stef. I didn't know that the US mainland was attacked by Germans
Thanks 👏👏happy healthy new year to you 🎉
Correctie: Boy Ecury was Arubaan.
I stand corrected.
Great video Stefan. Just one thing: Boy Ecury came from Aruba
Saludos
Good stuff. Much love, Homeslice.
Thanks. Cheers from Lima 🇵🇪
History Hustle: Thanks for this informative video. Again,,,, just when I thought I know just about everything about WW2, and then you or Felton posts some video telling / showing / explaining something unknown. I never knew about 90% of this information. Well Done! If the Dutch Royal couple could visit those Dutch Caribbean islands during WW2, where were they living at the time?
Canada and London. Thanks for your reply.
@@HistoryHustle Thanks!
Thank you that was interesting.
Thanks for replying.
"No one does it better.... another fine "Chapter"in the "Annals" of "Military History"....."Instructor"!!!
Thanks. Cheers from Lima 🇵🇪
Interesting video thank you.
Thanks Richard.
What a paradise you visited! By the way, there is a visceral book named Papillon, that tells the biography of a french that was imprisoned there at this events.
Obrigado, Stefan! ヽ(͡◕ ͜ʖ ͡◕)ﾉ 🍀 🇧🇷
Great. Didn't visit French Guyana though👍
Thanks!
Hi Jesse, many thanks for your donation once again. Best wishes from Lima 🇵🇪
You're looking super healthy out there!
Good times. Yet very warm weather 😅
7:41 I always thought (I don’t know why) that Madurodam was named after Nicholas Maduro (the Venezuelan leader).
Hahaha, yeah I can understand but on the flipside it is kinda strange the Dutch would name a theme park after the failing president of a country oversee.
thanks bro
Hello from Rob, Miami Florida. Good history . 😊
Thanks. Cheers from Lima 🇵🇪
Very interesting.
Thanks. Cheers from Lima 🇵🇪
@@HistoryHustle Cheers from Piotrków Trybunalski, Poland.🇵🇱
Hi Stefan, a quick mention of Anton de Kom en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anton_de_Kom would have gone nicely, but apart from that, excellent video! 👍
My friend, de Kom was from Suriname. Check my video on Suriname during WW2 in which I mention him. Cheers 👍
Ahhh yes Stefan you are right. An island oversite on my part. I'll continue watching these newer installments. Cheers!@@HistoryHustle
Really nice video, but Boy Ecury is from Aruba. He is buried there and has a monument.
I stand corrected.
Nice : )
Could you cover the dutch korps mariniers (black devils) or the prinses irene brigaden?
See Battle of Rotterdam video.
@@HistoryHustle ah okay im going to check it out 👍
Mijn oom was in WO 2 op Aruba gelegerd. Op hoge leeftijd kon hij nog vertellen over een Café dat Charlies Bar heette. Het schijnt nog te bestaan.
Interessant! Aruba heb ik nog niet bezocht.
Mooie Luxemburgse vlag id thumbnail...
Lol. Is rechtenvrije NL png.
Happy New Year
Thanks. You as well. Cheers from Lima 🇵🇪🎆
At one point in the beginning of the war, the harbor of Wilemstad was guarded against U-boat attacks on her oil refineries and storage tanks by a lightly armed Dutch whaleboat. Curacao was also one of way points for escaping Jews from Lithuania, initially aided by the humane and heroic Japanese ambassador, Chiune Sugihara who provided thousands of exit visas for the Jewish refugees.
Thanks for sharing.
Al weer interessant. Ook hier weinig van gehoord voor je film. Het economisch belang was er dus wel degelijk.
Dank voor het kijken.
Mt Dad and Cousin were on the ships in the harbor when the U-boat attacked and my cousin was sleeping on top of a fuel tanker and stold me he could the sailor on the deck of the U-boat firing the deck gun as they went by his ship.
I respectfully request your insight as to why Steyr, Austria was not completely destroyed during wwii?
Not sure. My guess would be its economic potential in the upcoming Cold War.
I've been pronouncing the islands incorrectly.
The lesser an-Till-lees is wrong I guess. Ant hills, now
Ok.
WW2 did not affect the Americas much, but the details are fascinating.
"no need to destroy the bear just slit its throat"-ulysses fallout new vegas
6:28 Never knew Aruba had fought a battle against cactus. That damn pesky cactus must have been ailed with the Nazis. 😂
Lol 🤣
G'day to you,I dont think you say Anthills ,it should be more like Antillees!
Ok.
I suppose there were much worse places to spend the war than Aruba or Jamaica!
Indeed.
An informative video, but the narrator should learn to pronounce "Antilles".
I see.
The US took 200,000 Italians and 300,000 Germans as prisoners during WWII... nearly all were civilians and lived outside of Europe. Their properties were confiscated and most were deported as slave labor after the war. Not a word on this injustice has ever been uttered in the US government and media and this story remains unknown to nearly all of our citizens...
Whataboutism.
Are you going to cover how the Dutch tried re-enslave their lost colonies, particularly in Asia, after the war. Maybe explain how the retuning Dutch army was different than the German army that invaded Holland.
He has videos on these subjects
@@duncandl910 I did a look over the last 2-3 years and didn't see any.
Those are the goofiest helmets I've ever seen.
Who the hell thought that was a good idea?
These are Dutch helmets.
Everything comes as a complete surprise for the Yanks.
Ant hills, that is not how you pronounce it, it is pronounced an til les.
Ok.
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Wat? We hebben nederlandse antillen???? Denk ,dat ik op school op dat geslapen heb
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An ... tillies
Ok.
Dive SABA.FORGET ST.MAARTAN
My dad lives on Saba.
Maduro, Hato. All played at ajax.
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In Murican we usually stress the first syllable of a word. ANN-till-ease. None of that fancy "tulips and wooden shoes" stuff for us,
In America apparently you assume Dutch pronunciation of Dutch places is incorrect simply because Americans pronounce it differently. Sad.
@@WilliamMurphy-uv9pm They thought that Aruba was in India.
Shocking pronunciation of Antilles!!
Ok.
If you make a documentary about the Antilles it would be best if you first learned how to pronounce it correctly.
I see.
1:51 Jews, or sympathies can be faked by the GER state for agents. An agent in this area cud be [very] useful for Japan.