A NO-GO-AREA IN DUTCH HISTORY : The Holocaust, the Dutch Government-in-Exile and its Administration in the Hague (Make Worlds)

Reiding, Jurrie/ Europe Books (EDT)

Europe Books（2024/07発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 204 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9791220145824

Full Description

The book deals, essentially, with an untold history of Dutch
collaboration during the German occupation (1940-1945). Principally, the
ruling class and its political institutions must be held accountable
for this collaboration.

Immediately after the defeat of the Dutch army in May 1940, the Dutch
Queen and the ministers went into exile in London, while the rest of the
ministries, headed by the Secretaries-General, remained in The Hague.

Officially, the Government-in-exile joined the Allied Forces, but at the
same time it allowed the administration in The Hague to establish
cordial relations with the occupier, in order to safeguard a proper
place for the Netherlands in the "New Europe" in case of a German
victory.

This policy of 'backing two horses' had to be abandoned at the turning
of the year 1942/1943, when the prospect of an Allied victory began to
dawn.

Unfortunately, at that time a substantial part of the Dutch Jewish
citizens had already been deported to the German extermination camps,
effectively supported by the Dutch administration in The Hague. The
'London' Government did not make any attempt to call its subordinates in
The Hague to order and made itself an accomplice in genocide.