Posted on 03/08/2021 7:53:08 AM PST by CheshireTheCat
Theo van Gogh, a Dutch resistance fighter of portentous lineage, was executed by the German occupation on this date in 1945.
This man was the grandson of the famous Theo van Gogh, art dealer and brother to troubled, brilliant painter Vincent van Gogh.
Our Theo was a 23-year-old university student in Amsterdam pulled into anti-Nazi resistance by the imposition of a hated loyalty oath on university personnel and was arrested several times, repeatedly tolling his father for bribes to extract him....
Besides his name-brand ancestry, Theo the World War II resistance figure is also the uncle (quite posthumously — this man wasn’t born until 1957) of film director Theo van Gogh, who’s a far-right martyr in his own right thanks to the vociferous anti-Islamic work that resulted in his 2004 assassination.
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That sounds like a very wronged family.
He got killed a second time by a Muslim who pulled him off his bicycle and stabbed him.
We saw the movie “The Last Vermeer” on demand- quite interesting.
Vincent really liked spaghetti westerns.
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