My very dear friend, Carl, grew up in Indonesia where his father was the senior military officer on the island of Bali. Because he was expected to follow the military traditions of his family, Carl went to Holland to train at their military academy. While still a cadet, the Germans invaded and he was forced into hiding. He spent the next four years serving in the Dutch underground. His future wife provided him with a cover story whenever he was sent on a mission in her part of the city. After the British liberated his area in 1944, Carl became a formal member of the Dutch Army. In 1945 he returned to Indonesia where his father had successfully fought the Japanese on Bali until ordered by senior command to surrender in 1942. He and his men then spent much of the remainder of the war in Burma building the infamous railroad of death. When Japan was defeated, Carl's father, as senior POW, received the POW camp commander's katana from him (Carl's son now has it). Carl was soon working as an intelligence officer and performed a number of classified missions during the Indonesian National Revolution. He told me about one operation in which he and his men had to swim ashore to infiltrate a communist position. It did not go well and they were shot at while still in the water. When the colonial war ended, Carl attended university in the Netherlands and received a doctorate in agronomy. He settled with his family on Bali, where the first two of his three children were born. But by the mid 1950s the Sukarno government had compiled a list of names of people deemed a potential threat to their increasing authoritarianism. A friend alerted Carl to the danger and strongly advised him to pack some bags and get his family out of Indonesia before he was arrested. Carl followed this advise and left his plantation and family wealth to return to the Netherlands before immigrating permanently to the United States and settling in my home town.
The dutch always called the Indonesian colonial war “police action”, it is still an highly controversial topic and excuses by the dutch government have only been made recently. The Americans also threatened to stop the Marshallplan if they didn’t let Indonesia be independent.
@Colonel Of the 82nd Airborne please go read some books on how the Dutch treated Indonesia over more than 3 centuries of colonisation and the atrocities they comitted there. And then come back and talk about terrorism.
@Colonel Of the 82nd Airborne Like I alluded to in my previous comment: it seems to me like you haven't got a clue about why the Dutch colonized Indonesia and what they did to keep it that way. And no, it's not because the Dutch were so nice and wanted to give these poor people schools en better houses and so on. I am Dutch and I know our history. And you, sir, do not.
I fell in love with the Netherlands. I was only going to be there a few days and after going to the maritime museum and spending three days in it, I had to know more.
That "The East" movie kinda reminds me of "Platoon" particularly where it shows them raiding that village, while the apolitical, young soldier watches in horror. An innocence lost type story perhaps
Hey Johnny, didn’t you already post this?? Anyway; as a Dutchman I wanted to say : big compliments on your explanations on the film The East. The movie is still very controversial amongst the Dutch. For your next film about Dutch ww2 films: do not leave out “ Soldier of Orange” (best Dutch film ever) and “The Assault” from 1986. The latter won the Oscar for best non English movie that year. (For what it’s worth, as a Dutchman I thought that “ Blackbook “and “the Forgotten Battle” were very poor movies despite their cast. ) Keep up the great work.
Thanks so much. Soldier of Orange is a personal favorite of mine as well so expect a future review on it. This is my new channel where I will be doing just movie reviews so I have moved some of my older videos over here so you might for the next week or so see some re-posts. I do apologize. Expect some new content shortly.
@@JohnnyJohnsonHistory Ah yes I realize now it’s a new channel indeed. Good luck with it. Huge, huge fan of your other channel. Love your spot on analysis and the use of New Kids Turbo now and then. High expectations for this channel (no pressure ;-) )
in the newer stuff, the dutch sounds like perectly servicable modern dutch, almost like the kind mark rutte would sopeak, it sounds out of place for a dutchman at this time period, 21st century dutch to a point of kind of taking you out of the immmersion
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My very dear friend, Carl, grew up in Indonesia where his father was the senior military officer on the island of Bali. Because he was expected to follow the military traditions of his family, Carl went to Holland to train at their military academy. While still a cadet, the Germans invaded and he was forced into hiding. He spent the next four years serving in the Dutch underground. His future wife provided him with a cover story whenever he was sent on a mission in her part of the city. After the British liberated his area in 1944, Carl became a formal member of the Dutch Army. In 1945 he returned to Indonesia where his father had successfully fought the Japanese on Bali until ordered by senior command to surrender in 1942. He and his men then spent much of the remainder of the war in Burma building the infamous railroad of death. When Japan was defeated, Carl's father, as senior POW, received the POW camp commander's katana from him (Carl's son now has it). Carl was soon working as an intelligence officer and performed a number of classified missions during the Indonesian National Revolution. He told me about one operation in which he and his men had to swim ashore to infiltrate a communist position. It did not go well and they were shot at while still in the water. When the colonial war ended, Carl attended university in the Netherlands and received a doctorate in agronomy. He settled with his family on Bali, where the first two of his three children were born. But by the mid 1950s the Sukarno government had compiled a list of names of people deemed a potential threat to their increasing authoritarianism. A friend alerted Carl to the danger and strongly advised him to pack some bags and get his family out of Indonesia before he was arrested. Carl followed this advise and left his plantation and family wealth to return to the Netherlands before immigrating permanently to the United States and settling in my home town.
thank you for the insight.
The dutch always called the Indonesian colonial war “police action”, it is still an highly controversial topic and excuses by the dutch government have only been made recently. The Americans also threatened to stop the Marshallplan if they didn’t let Indonesia be independent.
@Colonel Of the 82nd Airborne That still doesn’t make up for atrocities that the Dutch committed in indonesia
@Colonel Of the 82nd Airborne please go read some books on how the Dutch treated Indonesia over more than 3 centuries of colonisation and the atrocities they comitted there. And then come back and talk about terrorism.
@Colonel Of the 82nd Airborne Like I alluded to in my previous comment: it seems to me like you haven't got a clue about why the Dutch colonized Indonesia and what they did to keep it that way. And no, it's not because the Dutch were so nice and wanted to give these poor people schools en better houses and so on.
I am Dutch and I know our history. And you, sir, do not.
@Colonel Of the 82nd Airborne Yeah, that makes absolutely no f**ing sense whatsoever.
@Colonel Of the 82nd Airborne lol the lack of a clue in this comment is hilarious. But it takes alll kinds. Hope you crack a book eventually friend
I fell in love with the Netherlands. I was only going to be there a few days and after going to the maritime museum and spending three days in it, I had to know more.
That "The East" movie kinda reminds me of "Platoon" particularly where it shows them raiding that village, while the apolitical, young soldier watches in horror. An innocence lost type story perhaps
By the way Blackbook was directed by Paul Verhoeven, (The Robocop guy) as was Soldier of Orange.
the east depiction of Indonesia is amazing
Excellent! A dedicated RUclips channel for movies is a great idea, Johnny. Subscribed, of course.
Thanks brother. Welcome to the 2nd channel.
I love The East, its a great movie that shows the horrors of War and the consequences a lot of servicemen and women face.
The film The East is reminiscent of the American experience in Vietnam two decades later.
Pastorale 1943 (1978) and Riphagen are also a nice watch!
Great content, I’ll be definitely be checking out The East
Hey Johnny can you recommend some Thai War Films.
Ill definitively add it to the list! I'll have to do some research :)
@@JohnnyJohnsonHistory Thank
The Huey vid is the only one with Vietnam stuff lemme get some movies I haven’t seen about Vietnam
Good list. I would also recommend "Soldier of Orange".
Very excellent choices. These recommendations are on Netflix. Many others are not.
I'll look those up. The Netherlands is like home away from home for me.
Hey Johnny, didn’t you already post this?? Anyway; as a Dutchman I wanted to say : big compliments on your explanations on the film The East. The movie is still very controversial amongst the Dutch. For your next film about Dutch ww2 films: do not leave out “ Soldier of Orange” (best Dutch film ever) and “The Assault” from 1986. The latter won the Oscar for best non English movie that year. (For what it’s worth, as a Dutchman I thought that “ Blackbook “and “the Forgotten Battle” were very poor movies despite their cast. ) Keep up the great work.
Thanks so much. Soldier of Orange is a personal favorite of mine as well so expect a future review on it. This is my new channel where I will be doing just movie reviews so I have moved some of my older videos over here so you might for the next week or so see some re-posts. I do apologize. Expect some new content shortly.
@@JohnnyJohnsonHistory Ah yes I realize now it’s a new channel indeed. Good luck with it. Huge, huge fan of your other channel. Love your spot on analysis and the use of New Kids Turbo now and then. High expectations for this channel (no pressure ;-) )
The asaukt , the twins , soldier of orange . all well worth to watch . Also the movie Oeroeg of the police actions in the independence war .
I gotta review/recommend Soldier of Orange! Great movie.
The Admiral was brilliant
Thanks for sharing such videos with us.
Yo Johnny how you doing today
Good man. Working on a P-40 video. How about you?
@@JohnnyJohnsonHistory I am doing good also the p-40 is actually really nice fighter plane can't wait for the new video
Reminiscent of American Geopolitics in SE Asia after WWI
Thanks Johnny.
I like Starship Troopers.
5:57 excuse me about your British Allies
Superb. Job😊
in the newer stuff, the dutch sounds like perectly servicable modern dutch, almost like the kind mark rutte would sopeak, it sounds out of place for a dutchman at this time period, 21st century dutch to a point of kind of taking you out of the immmersion
Do a video about ukrainian war films
Indonesia- 17501 islands, ~6000 occupied
im look movie netherlands attack indonesian