Netherlands during (tijdens) WW2 1940-45
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- Опубликовано: 10 окт 2012
- The Netherlands were occupied by the Germans in May 1940. After 5 years of suffering they were liberated amongst others by Canadian troops. A fierce fighting took place. This film was made not so long after the war. See my other films of the Netherlands many years ago by searching with: michael rogge netherlands
Yes, Canadians stole our hearts at the time by freeing us from the German occupation. I remember greeting the Canadian troops as a boy in Friesland in April 1945.
@Freedomvoice888 clip is removed. do you have another link?
Then Netherlands colonized Indonesia
Seriously that's creepy
After canada freeing you, THEN DUTCH TRUN INTO TRUE NAZI BY INVADING INDONESIA, HELLOOO TRUE NAZI ROOTS @MichaelRogge
My grandfather was part of the Cape Breton Highlanders and fought for a week, and on May 1st 1945 the Cape Breton Highlanders liberated Delfzijl which was a big win with it being a large port and on the border of Germany, where they captured 2000 German Nazis and killed many more. The Cape Breton Highlanders were also highly trained in fire warfare and used Wasp flame thrower tanks, which were very fast and able to throw a large flame a long distance, they were seriously scary weapons with how fast and destructive they were to anything in their path. The war ended a few days later, and it was known as one of the battles that helped end the war. My grandfather, great uncle and great grandfather all left for Italy in 1941. My great grandfather came home injured, but my grandfather and his brother stayed until the very end. I have lots of documentation on his years overseas, and the 2000km he traveled from Italy, to France, to Belgium and ultimately into the Netherlands. They traveled to Italy on the SS Monterey which was attacked before it even made it to Italy resulting in many casualties, and the Cape Breton Highlanders rescued over 2000 men from the ocean. Those men were young at the time (my grandfather was 19 when he left and almost 25 when he returned).
@@stefanuskristian5758 ? Indonesia got colonized by the Dutch way before WW2, and it actually got its independence from the
Dutch because of WW2.
My Dutch grandma could speak German. So when the soldiers searched the house, she softened them up with conversation and sympathy for their homesickness. They never found my uncle, who was hiding to avoid forced labour, or realised my mum was working furiously for the Resistance.
Are any of the people you speak of (your grandmother, mother and uncle) still alive? If so please thank them for me, a passionate Canadian anti fascist/anti neoNazi. I only hope I and my family members would resist such oppression if we were in the same circumstances.
If I could I'd love to raise a glass to your family, mine, and the yearning for a free and just world.
C A Campbell What do you have against fascists? And what is a "neo-nazi"?
Gary Daniel Nimrod appears in the Quran, sura al -bakara, verse 258:
Did n't you look at Nimrod who disputed against Abraham in respect to the Lord, saying that God did give to him kingdom? When Abraham said: My Lord is He, who makes live and who makes die. Nimrod said: I do make live and I do make die. Abraham said: Well, God makes sun rise from the East, do you make it rise from the West. Then was confused (ar.: buhita) he, who was an unbeliever (ar.: kâfir). And God does not conduct those who make injustice. In Turkish Kurdistân there is a mountain called Nimrod-dagh.
Gary Daniel Would you please say where in which chapter and verse of the Revelations this fragment has been written? We, members of the N.S.B, sang before the Second Worls War already about the antichrist: Dat scheepje dat heette het kapitaal daarin zaten een liberaal, een staatspartijman en een joods-marxist een vakbondsman en een antichrist en in de uitkijk voer mee de leider der N.S.B. (That ship was called the Capital, in it were a liberal, a member of the State Party and a Jewish marxist, a labour man and an antichrist and in the lookout sailed with it the chief of the N.S.B.) N.S.B. is the abbreviation of National Socialist Beweging (Movement). During German occupation she numbered 200.000 members. The chief was engineer Anton Adriaan Mussert. He was executed in 1946 after a show process.
Grandfather on my fathers side had to work in Germany (factory work) and grandfather on my mothers side was send to 2 concentration camps (he escaped 1 and managed to walk back home in the Netherlands eating cats and birds he could find but ended up being betrayed by an old friend of his and was send to his 2nd camp)
i live in Rotterdam, and we will have old buildings you see in the video, and i still cant believe what horror it has been for the people seeing those building on fire.
thanks for sharing this!
Dutch Christians helped Jews just like me during those hard times for our people, I will always be thankful for this Country
Also non christians did, mostly socialists and communists.
Every year during Lent I read "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom. A wonderful story of courage and faith and forgiveness!
@@MrToontuber He means non-Jews, not necessarily practising Christians.
There were plenty of dutch christian nsb supporters who snitched on jews
@@maryf4982 yes, wonderful book, wonderful family
It truly hurts to see that my people had to go through this. My Opa was in Amsterdam when this all went down. Only the dutch could have weathered this storm. Strong people, smart people, Dutch people. Long Live Nederland's.
Swavenation613,among just about the whole of Europe itself had to be the same in resisting a war machine at that time highly disciplined and motivated clicking on all cylinders. WW2 was before my time, nevertheless it frightens me,if the German would've pulled it off. An upset Germany conquers the world with the axis allies mostly covering thier flanks, taking nothing away from those countries more or less forced to fight except for Italy .I believe the Italian people upside down crucifixion of Mussolini proved that.Man if those Nazi would've.
Not "we are germans" But.....Ben ik van Duitschen bloed" The word Duitschen is a old word for Neerderlands....
My Opa had to hide in sewers to escape, its horrible to see what our families suffered through, makes it all feel so much more real seeing this.
@gusooo gbg do some research: the Dutch administration was really good and so when it came in German hands they could see were all the jews lived, this is the main reason so many jews got deported.
The Dutch resistance was also really organized and succesfull and as a punishment the Germans starved out the whole population, better known as the honger winter.
Next time be silent you uneducated fool.
Ik ben zó trots op Nederland en de Nederlanders! Ik houd zielsveel van mijn nieuw vaderland. Ben net Nederlandse staatsburger geworden. Leve Nederland!
My Dutch great grandpa who served in ww2 passed today
There a great generation that is slipping away. If you have one left spend as much time with him or her as you can once they are gone they are gone and you will regret not spending that time with them
Van harte gecondoleerd. Dit zijn ónze mensen, we zijn er trots op ondanks deze uiterst onzalige coalitie sinds 2017.
Fill Bill i game with my grandma
Want to go to the netherlands really bad, because I'm Canadian and they love us over there
Chris Moore jep we do
Chris Moore
Not anymore, well some of course. It has been completely overrun by foreigners.
Same as Sweden, they put their own in there as well.
Europe needs to be fumigated.
+Joan Arc: Exactly what Hitler and the nazis thought. You would have fit right in.
Iam Dutch and (almost everyone) forgot about it
@@maximilianotorro527 that's sad... but I understand it was a long time ago
6:59 this guys ingenious.Using 2 chairs to walk through the flood water!
Peter Turner,Now without any doubts the world have seen and knows the inventor of the wooden shoes give the man his patent. It was said my man turned down numerous boat rides to get his invention recognized.
My grandpa was born just before the war started (in 1938), and survived the bombing of Rotterdam. He lived in Rotterdam until the end of the war. He told me a pretty cool story from the war. My great grandpa used to work as water police in the port of Rotterdam, which is where all the German brown sugar came in and was transported to Germany. Everytime a ship entered the harbor my great grandfather would take a crate of sugar, until one day he and his friends decided that it was a bit obvious, So they stole a whole ship! they distributed the sugar among people without food in the hunger winter. Good thing they never got caught. an uncle of my grandfather also once dressed up a Nazi soldier and stole a truck to claim food supplies in the north of Holland. Those were some strange times.
I am a disabled 42 year old Canadian who has returned to University. I would love the chance to visit on an educational visa so I can learn the history at a Netherlands university. Than I want to be able to share it with the Canadians on our Remembrance Day. We will always have an unbreakable bond based on humanity, bravery, mutual respect, and a best-friend relationship.
Indeed it was a verocious combat. The Germans did not want to acknowledge their defeat. We, Dutchmen, owe much to Canadians who had to pay with their lives to usher us to freedom!
Konjo Chulo you must be a sad pathetic little man, you are talking to a man who lived through nazi occupation
Dank u voor deze documentaire.
Fascinerend om te bestuderen...
Konjo Chulo Your so stupid! You know nothing about the Netherlands! F#$k off
I am the child of two Canadian WWII vets. Thank you for your acknowledgement of the role played by people of my parents' generation! 😍 Not many left alive anymore. ❤️
My son-in-law started reading The Diary of Anne Frank with my 10 year old granddaughter recently. He is a teacher and started an IB (International Baccalaureate) program in a high school in the city where I live. It was designed to encourage sophisticated critical thinking in young people of high school age.
He and I both have a lifelong passion for the history of WWII. So much to learn. And now, so challenging to apply what we've learned to what is happening in so many places in the world!
Please know that I was touched by your comment.
Very moving - thanks for posting.
Thanks for posting this film.
Great grandfather was 14 when he joined the resistance and became wanted by the Gestapo so had to flee Holland. He ended up in Wolverhampton- England and joined the princess Irene brigade and fought through the remainder of the war with the British army, many others did the same. Big respect to them all.
@Orion Lord the only racist in the Netherlands are the ones that invaded and should of never gone there.
Hi Michael,
Thanks for sharing this. I'm working on a short film about a 92-year-old Dutch Holocaust survivor and would like to use a short clip from this video. Is this public domain footage? Or, would I need permission from you? Or someone else?
Thank you Canadians and other Allied forces...much respect.
Indians saved you
@@newandroizneox4887 Huh? How so?
It wasn't much of a fight because the Germans used sneaky methods, not because the Dutch army didn't wanted to fight. Bombing a city and using prisoners as a human shield, isn't very humane.
but it seems that they desired to fight in Russia. Check out Wikipedia Foreign Waffen SS - 50,000 dutch fought and died for Nazis.
+kurt tun: From this thread there still (or again?) seems to be fearless enthusiasm for nazi ideology. I find it sickening. Repugnant, to the depths of my being.
Ya , Human shields is why Germany won, It had nothing to do with the Maybach and Porsche tank Engines , The Intellectual integrity pioneering the first ever Rocket-powered flight. It was sneaky methods and human shields.
because forcing people to build traintracks to their inevitable death in Indonesia is very humane. Bet you guys didnt learn all them history much.
Its easy to claim and or blame something on someone if you benefit from the idea.
and this is coming from a singaporean.
How about Dutch sneaky action called politionel aktie in Indonesia which took hundred life of innocent civilians
Thanks for this! It's hard to find decent English sources about the Netherlands to show to my Dutch (bilingual) classes.
@uta gordon thank you. I’m off to watch that film now. I suspect my Opa may have been at Westerbork for a time. I was unable to find copies of the books yet. I’ll keep looking. Do you happen to know of any sources (in English) that detail everyday life for the Dutch people? I’m trying to get a sense of what my Oma experienced. So far I’ve found information about the Jewish population and the horrors they experienced, and information about people in the resistance, but not much about the ordinary everyday people. What the rations were, how they cooked what little they had, what was in short supply, did they have enough fuel to cook or perhaps heat (I doubt that one!), what were their routines etc etc. There’s heaps of that kind of info about the British home front which sort of gives me an idea of what it must have been like in Holland, but I really would like to know for sure.
It's sad that I need to watch old footage like this to feel any sort of pride for my country and its people.
Not much left of that Dutch pride and tradition these days..
My mother was Dutch born in Amsterdam Holland ,she was Engaged to young man who worked for the underground, “he was one of the boys who was put to death , my father was in WW2 ona three day leave he went to Amsterdam met my. mother,thank You for these beautiful videos clip
I am am French and Dutch. Our brave soldiers might have not been able to defend their country so easily however Canadian troops were on the way to save the Netherlands. We shall remember the brave Dutch and Canadian soldiers who have died on the grounds of the Netherlands.
Bedankt nu heb ik weer wat geleerd. Ik wil meer
My Uncle was an operative in the Dutch Underground- Got caught by the Germans due to a Dutch Nazi (NSB'er) , escaped from the prison in A'dam- Crossed the English channel in a rowboat- Was interrogated by the English- Sent BACK to Holland as a spy for the English, was compromised and picked up by English patrol boat- Back to England for flight training- Became a Spitfire Pilot in the Dutch RAF Squadron (322nd) and was shot down over Arnhem 10 days before the end of the war.
So sad to hear this.
Thats one hell of a story mate.
Salute to your uncle
The Dutch population certainly wasn't nazi-minded. When the Germans left most Dutchmen were jubilant after years of distress and prosecution.
This is maybe true but there was a relatively large fascist element with a small Resistance element in WWII Netherlands with Dutch Nazis brought to trial after the war. High on the list was Pieter Menton, a Nazi war criminal. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pieter_Menten
ruclips.net/video/PpgPcKYKl3A/видео.html
In my replies below I speak of Dutch Nazi war criminal, Pieter Menton, who received protection from Dutch political higher ups after the war owing to bribes given. Interviewees, a Dutch police officer of that era and a judge of that era speak about this in the BBC program on Pieter Menton: ruclips.net/video/PpgPcKYKl3A/видео.html
Hallo. Spreek je nog Nederlands?
MichaelRogge je hebt de oorlog bewust mee gemaakt dus?
thanks to all that had share their personal experience, i am studying for Kennis van netherlandse Maatschappij, i personally admire netherland people, very hard workers and intelligent, it is nice to hear from people whom had lived in those difficult times as well as very sad situations.
Muchas gracias, María!
My uncle, Sergeant Ernest Dyer was there with Canadian 1st Division, fought in the Scheldt and liberated many towns... He said he saw many horrible things committed by retreating German troops against the Dutch people!
TheSpritz0 Ur uncle is a hero. Thanks for liberating us!
Thanks! Thousand times!
TheSpritz0: Your uncle is a hero, one of the so many brave Canadians who liberated us! Thank You !! We love you!
Exactly 80 years ago when this happened. May god bless the men that had fought for my country 🙏🏼❤️
My Grandparents also both lived through this in Rotterdam. Both born in 1934, so they were just young kids. I remember my Grandma telling me how tough it was finding food and eating back then. They used to catch mice just to have something more to eat.
My Grandpa just passed away 3 weeks ago on Jan 1st of this year. He would've turned 90 next month. My Grandma is still alive and she is turning 90 years old this May.
The Dutch hated the Germans what they did in WW2 to their own country, but forgot what the Dutch did in the hundred years in the past in the territory that Dutch called 'eastern indie' even in the next years later after WW2.
The Dutch admire Canadian what they did to their own country but not learn as a role model, but the colonial attitude was in them even before the Germans did.
Deep condolences to the women, children, and civilians who have become victims for the colonialism itself from wherever the country even in Germany though
a little reminder that Canadian troops freed my city (and most of the northern parts of The Netherlands) so a thank you to the Canadian troops, the American and British and ofcourse many other troops that gave their life for us
Don't forget the brave Poles, who helped liberate us too! They are always forgotten :-(
ihave been in war 1942 now i am 98 years old
Today i just became 100 years old
Thanks for sharing! We still dont understand today why the Queen and the goverment flew. The film doesnt mention the widespread collaboration with Nazis or the fate of the Jewish population (except at the end of the film!), and boasts about the Resistance.... There has been acts of resistance, yes, at the beginning, and many righteous people hiding persecuted people.
Anyway, interesting propaganda film.. I am glad to be able to see it.
Gives the tone of the postwar era.
My great aunts and cousins were under occupation in Gelderland. A distant cousin was aboard the only sunken Dutch submarine that hasn't been found. When Princess Juliana visited Pella, Iowa during the war, my piano teacher prepared her lunch.
My Opa was young during WW2, so this story most likely took place around early 1945. He told me a story a few months ago, his mother and his brother having to run away to a farm due to the Germans marching into the Netherlands, and it was his dad's orders to get them to safety (his father did labour in a concentration camp). On the way there, there were a few German military soldiers around so they hid in the back of one of the trucks. The German soldier who drove the truck threatened to report them, but my Opa offered a pack of cigarettes in return for him not to report them. And so eventually, they got to the farm safely and after the war, managed to reunite with his father who did labour in one of the camps.
So to sum it up, a pack of cigarettes saved my Grandpa's life during WW2.
Thanks for your reminiscences. Moreover your Opa's health benefitted from not smoking those cigarettes
Smoking kills? Think again.
Wow! What conversations here! Human beings must figure out how to end war, stop genocide!
Are you Canadian or Scottish?
Thanks for sharing.
Bedankt dat je ons onze vrijheid hebt gegeven Vanuit Nijmegen
(Thank you for giving us our freedom
From Nijmegen)
Say what ever you like. I'd like to say; the Netherlands fought tremendously during WW2. Wether in Europe, or Asia for that matter. We couldn't have done it without our allies ofcourse.. But I'm sure the Dutch effort was significant enough, unfortunatly to little mentioned. I also think, one particular country is simply getting way to much credit for the outcome. .. And it's not Canada
dream on
Guy in my class, his Opa was one of the men who helped organise the resistance, ended up on hitlers kill list.
An ex British soldier , who served in BAOR for 12 years in the 70 and 80s, and have a great affection for the Dutch , Nederlanders
I grew up watching Corrie Ten Boom, "The Hiding Place" and the "Diary of Anne Frank." Thanks, this is very informative.
The Netherlands had the largest non German SS division. Go to the Gouda resistance museum and ask to see the (hidden) SS insignia that they have there. The items (thousands) are in the back to the left as you go in.
Nazi Duck!!!
@Danny Rey True Nazi Duuuuuck
Love to our Canadian brothers who fought and died for our country!!
They felt the discomfort of being colonized by Germany, but still continued to occupy Indonesia. They really didn't know themselves.
my grandfather was a ww2 vet who helped liberate Holland & Europe.
Anyway...we had 5 years to learn German, wich became handy on our holydays, 50 years later...
J Menge
holidays
Ehh, 50 jaar?
holy days
@@AsvaldoAyus9419 lol
Thanks German for capitulating Netherlands at that time. Cheers from Indonesia 🇮🇩🇮🇩.
Abang Twix my god what is it with you people and thinking that the invasion of the netherlands caused japanese independence
Sure, it's cute that the Dutch did their best to hold on to the Germans for as long as possible, but of course their contribution of defeating Germany was nothing compared to what other nations were doing.
And given that a large part of the Dutch population rallied behind Germany during the occupation, it is a miracle that the Allies wanted to liberate their country.
As a Dutchman I stayed in Holland during WW2 and must protest the statement that the Dutch held on to the Germans. Most Dutchmen hated the occupation. There were resistance groups.
@@michaelijsbrand I was born near Utrecht in '43. My parents told me that most Dutch people loathed the occupiers. The contempt they felt for the NSB was total.
Indonesia : You become something that you hate the most.
Just Holland? The rest of the Netherlands didn't count?
Holland is to reference the Netherlands. Netherlands is too big to say at once and more people say it wrongly. so Holland is the short way to say it
OmenicronGaming No shit, but its wrong. Its like calling the US Dakota and nobody does that. So Holland is the wrong way, not the short way.
Lennart Plugge keep in mind we also have a North and South Holland.
OmenicronGaming you dont say!? So what? They still dont form the country.
Lennart Plugge Dude the main rule after ww2 was: Holland is now Netherlands. to remove the confusion with Poland
It was only when i found a Canadian 9MM bullet while magnet fishing when i realised what the people had gone through.
Ana cuenta esto en su diario pobrecita estaban todos asustados
How about Indonesia? Was Dutch did the same thing to Indonesia in 350 years?
@Danny Rey no?????? Dutch = Hitler in Indonesia .. They killed many innocent civilians. They called other human 'ilander' = animal. They took and robbed many worth things in Indonesia, etc. What do you know about it? History cannot lie.
@Danny Rey Don't talk about concept of sovereignty. Your spelling of sovereignty very poor Dannyboy!!!
Duck wants to be a Nazi. Thief, look at your museum, almost all of them from stolen goods from other countries. Shame on you!!!!!
@Danny Rey Come duck and you will cry like NICA.
@Danny Rey Now your country impotent country. No place to colonize, to rob. Shame on you.....
I know these things since I^ve studied history but you should see this in the context of what he has written about these groups. Well spotted and of course also true.
No American city has had to face this type of modern war fare and goes along way to explaining American attitudes, to WW2.
8:39 best part!
OMG did any of you see soldaat van oranje?! My dad is choir master it's about Erik Hazelhoff so world war 2
Nee, ik heb er in de hongerwinter iets van opgestoken. Mijn moeder was Friezin.
Do not ask this to a war bride who went with her husband to Canada you will be surprised to find out what they had to say,most of them came in more misery that what they had left behind.
Remember the Canadians sacrificed in Dieppe 🇨🇦
The pacifists thought they could prevent war... but the Dutch people decided to resist the German invasion.
I was there at that time ,thank you Canada!
Brave Dutch 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
From Great Britain.
The funny thing is that after the Netherlands was free from the Nazi invasion in 1945, the following year they invaded Indonesia which they claimed was the Dutch East Indies :)
Hello mr.Netherlands , I'm indonesian's from your Ex-teritory , what's going on over there ?
Don't you follow the news?
My grandpas were German and one of them fought in the invasion of holland and france
thank you for telling us - there's always another side to things, and beliefs and nationalism can have very strange (and tragic) effects on people - across the world. through millenia. We seem not to learn, and soon to forget what we once knew. A kind of blindness. Ah well ...
Netherlands in Indonesia : 💪
NETHERLANDS IN EUROPE :
german para,s got their asses handed out to them in rotterdam near the maasbrug , and in den haag and the westland as well , but as history told us , it was a uphill-battle
And our Royal family denied to invest in our army after WWI! We only had two renault tanks and everything else was a left over from WWI! They fled the country to England! And left the whole country fighting and starving to death! It took the Germans three weeks to take over The Netherlands while having so much better guns and tanks! Even the Germans said the Dutch where so brave and powerfull with almost nothing. Most Dutch had to surrender to the lack of ammunation!
Wow!
My grand father was a Dutch soldier he join in 1934
I had a teacher Mr Rogge in Groningen.Bent U zijn zoon?
Nee, Rogge's in Groningen ken ik niet. Er zijn er ook veel in Belgie. De Rogge's zijn waarschijnlijk afkomstig uit Noord Duitsland. Er woont inderdaad een M. Rogge in Groningen. Volgens de PTT is het telefoonnummer
050-5269850. Belt u ze eens !
Very kind of you to respond.I have to work up some courage to call that number of Rogge.
We live for 54 years in Canada .John and I are thankful to live in this beautiful land.
Also the name Beens came from Germany way back.
I love "Stambooms" and this way ,one can find out a lot.
Best wishes: Elly Beens
09:24 is that kapsalon? kidding
they felt downright hatred for them!!
Who are 'we' ? Most Dutchmen do understand.
Indonesians: *yes 😒*
@J A Netherlands 350 years invaded Indonesia. I mean they really love us Indonesian until they dont want to go home😂,until german invaded Holland too,until Russia came,until Japan and German helped us. What's wrong with them? 😂
*cries in indonesia*
I heat netherlands, I love German, but Netherlands 350 years invaded Indonesia, fuck you Netherlands 😡👎
From Indonesian
very interesting and when the germans left what did the dutch do???they did the same as the french ,they went to the DUTCH INDIES INDONESIA and the french went to INDOCHINA VIETNAM CAMBODIA LAOS SO MUCH FOR JUSTICE
and then Indonesian colonised West New Guinea ....
Another people with great neighbors.
Fix the subtitles!
Netherland lose twice at that time. In Indonesia, they destroyed by Imperial Japanese Army. And in Europe they destroyed by German
what a shame. Just victorie??
I didn't see the part of American bombers bombed the City of Nijmegen in February 44. Way before d-day more then 800 people got killed. There was no invasion going on, it was no mistake. It was just a target of opportunity . The ancient city completely destroyed .
God damn the germans; never forget, never forgive.
the royal leech got scared and left.
BigMisterApple traitors
If the Dutch had accepted their occupation like the Danes who recognized that a resistance wouldn't have had any chance, all that needed not to happen.
My grand-grandfather had to fight with his brother for the Nazis on D-Day, they begged the Americans not to kill them because they had to fight for the Nazis or they would be taken to prison, it was almost like the scene on Saving Private Ryan. The Americans didn’t care and killed his brother but didn’t kill my grand-grand father, they wanted to make him fight for the Allies, My Grand-Grand father passed away 10 years ago but he told my grandpa and my grandpa told me, The Americans weren’t that perfect. They just want to kill, My grand grand father told my grandpa that they laughed when shooting a bullet trough his brothers head. But i’m pretty sure not all of them were like that.
they inlisted in the German forces! Dont be under any illusion. The Dutch had the biggest contingent in the German SS and were renown for colloborating with the german occupiers. They even help round up, seek out for money, its Jewish population who lost about 85% the biggest in all western Europe. Read the 2005 Dutch book in English by Van Liempt "Hitler's Bounty Hunters"
ISBN 1-84520-203-1 and you will see another side of your occupation and it ain't pretty at all
Orion Lord selfish americans always thinking they and only they won the war, nobody did. We all lost
"...few Dutch collaborators"?
THE DUTCH FOUNDED THE USA, READ WERE WORDS LIKE YANKEE , DOLLAR AND SANTA COME FROM; In the 15 th century the dutch people , citizens of Holland called the Batavieren, ruled the waves. Back than, by example they discovered and named Australia , 100 years before the british empire did, founded New Sealand (Nieuw Zeeland) were the only one trading with Japan , and had a empire around the world. They ruled the big empire of indonesia , founded the city of Batavia (now Jakarta), South Africa , Suriname, several islands, founded amongs others , New York (back than 'New Amsterdam") as still vissible in the names ;
Bowery Lane (Bouwerijlaan)
Bridge street (Brugstraat)
Broadway (Breede Weg)
Brooklyn (Breukelen)
Bushwick (Boswijk)
Coney Island (Konijneneiland)
Flushing (Vlissingen)
Gravesend (Gravesende)
Greenwich Village (Groenwijck)
Harlem (Haarlem)
Hempstead ( Heemstede )
Hoboken (Antwerpen) (belgium was also Dutch)( The unique spirit of Holland is still the in the spirit of New York people say. That is freedom tolerance , open minded and direct.)
many parts of the United States, like Vancouver (van Coevorden) and the hole north east of the U.S. which was called 'Nieuw Nederland'. 246 typical north american words are from Holland, like YANKEE (jankees) dollar (daalder) SANTA CLAUS (Sinterklaas) sleigh (slee.) In the United Kingdom about 500 words are from Holland. They founded the United Kingdom in its todays setting by William of Orange , and made the U.S. possible by bank loans to get its independance from Great Britain. and this is just a part of that list. If they did not sold or lost almost everything the world should speak Dutch now. This amazing country with its red white and blue flag still amazes people around the world , they innitiated the European Union and United Nations, the world wildlife fund ,now The Netherlands is the worlds peace and justice country by its international court ,
That is sort of true. They did have a colony there called New Amsterdam which is now New York.
Well we Dutch were not the first to find the USA but we did show them the real name for Kris Kringle. Unfortunately New Amsterdam and South Africa was taken by the British.
Yep, us British took the city and renamed it after the Duke of York!
the dutch were smart not moving against the german, they would have killed left n right
cri
I simply do not understand why the Dutch became so pro German to not only join the European Community but also the Euro. Very odd indeed!
Fun fact most dutch voted against joining the European Union and using the Euro but our leftist globalist government basically ignored the votes and joined anyways
The Dutch population has a lot of contact with Germans and know very well that the defeat resulted in profound changes in the attitudes of German people. Today's Germany is not in any sense the Third Reich.
AND MANY DUTCH HELPED THE GERMANS, MOSTLY ON THE CATHOLIC SIDE OF THE PEOPLE. SORRY FOLKS BUT THAT’S THE WAY THINGS WERE.
I,m netherlands
This makes me so angry what the germans did
So sad ;-(
A real monarrch used to fight on the frontlines not hiding across an ocean. Bring back the republic!
Agreed
Mobutu Obama if a monarch flees, it’s for the better. Morale remains high among resistance members. And after the war, especially in the netherlands where a lot of rebuilding was needed, a figure to boost yet again morale is always good. Besides, monarchies earn the state quite good money
Just you say Dwight!
Then they have to come out of their "save" houses...
I am Dutch and a shame for that......the softies and our deaf gouvernement included.
On paper it wouldn't look like the Dutch put up much resistance against the German invaders as the blitzkrieg lasted only from May 10- May 14, 1940. But what has to be taken into account is that the Germans attacked without warning and that Holland is a small country in land area. German paratroopers also landed behind Dutch lines. Had Holland possessed land area the size of the Soviet Union, with comparable population and resources, it's possible that country might have defeated Nazi Germany unaided. After all, the relatively small Dutch military did hold of the Germans for five days. Even German Army officers admitted that.
iedereen zat in het verzet.
Mensen vergeten snel
I must say that this queen was very quickly to do the chicken run