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To: iowamark
I stand at the end of the long, long line of good Dutch people who did what I did and more — much more — during those dark and terrible times years

Good for her.

Should be noted that not all Dutch people met this high standard. Over 75% of the Jews of the Netherlands died, a high percentage for western Europe.

This is to a considerable extent because the Dutch civil administration kept running smoothly during the war, making the Nazis job of tracking Jews down easier. There was considerable collaboration by bureaucrats, cops and the general population.

The Nazis of course viewed the Dutch as perfectly good Aryans so weren't oppressing them in the same way as they did the Poles.

To be fair, the Dutch also had an unusually large number of people who risked their lives to help Jews.

IOW, the Dutch had an unusually large number of heros and villains.

10 posted on 01/11/2015 12:26:55 PM PST by Sherman Logan
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To: Sherman Logan

The arresting force were mostly Dutch police, lead by a Nazi cop.


14 posted on 01/11/2015 2:36:46 PM PST by DesertRhino (I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but communists just ran for office.)
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To: Sherman Logan

You have identified the indelible shame of the occupied countries. The Nazis would never have achieved the “success” they did in exterminating European Jewry without the meticulous civil record keeping providing the identities and locations of all Jews and the enthusiastic support of civil authorities in rounding them up for deportation.

The truth is that the governments of the occupied countries were all too happy to help the Germans get rid of their Jews. Those pogroms had just gotten so tedious.


17 posted on 01/11/2015 3:07:29 PM PST by SargeK
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