[Monterrosa-24]

The doctor should be hanged. Her family that went along with this should receive prison time.

The Dutch settled down to five years of Nazi occupation and gave the Germans very little trouble. They seemed to have learned a lot from the Nazis. Their “underground” did not care enough to rise up and thus they were not free from the Germans until over a week after Hitler killed himself.

[wardaddy]

That’s inaccurate

Not meaning to argue

[Zhang Fei]

While the Dutch punched way above their weight in terms of ensuring 75% of Dutch Jews were killed and enlisting in the Waffen SS at the highest rates of any conquered Western European country, it’s their looting of Jewish assets post-war, that really takes the cake:

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http://www.jcpa.org/jl/vp412.htm
[Some commission reports have already been published. The Kordes Commission, which dealt with the LIRO bank, demonstrated in its final report an understanding of how cold the treatment of the remaining Jews by Dutch postwar governments had been, and recommended that payments now be made to the Jews for several wrongs. One of these involved the fact that the Dutch government did not return most of the taxes taken, without the knowledge of the owners, from looted Jewish accounts during World War II by Dutch tax authorities, including for years after the account owners had been gassed.

One major objection to the Kordes Commission’s conclusions concerns their opinion that it was correct to apply the Dutch inheritance tax laws to the fortunes of the murdered Jews. This subject could become an academic case study. It is a paradigm of how a normal law in a democratic country can become a perverse tool if applied in an extreme situation, particularly against a politically weak community. The Dutch government instituted its inheritance tax laws for a normal society in which the vast majority of people die a natural death. It then used these laws to appropriate money from the estates of a community which it had been unable to protect, 75 percent of whom were murdered over a two- to three-year period.]

[Zhang Fei]

People who wonder why European Jews who survived the Holocaust fled to Israel need to understand that European governments systematically looted their possessions in the post-war era. All that many Jews had left were memories. Their property had been stolen in its entirety, and there weren’t any homes to return to. So they took the plunge and left for Israel instead of continuing to struggle in countries hostile to their very existence.