Free Republic

Do we really want an ever more tyrannical government? ___________ For many residents of Amsterdam, the German invasion of May 10, 1940, came as a shock. “We were trapped,” said Lena Herzfeld, “along with one hundred and forty thousand other Dutch Jews.” “Unlike France and Belgium, which were placed under German military control, Hitler decided that the Netherlands would be run by a civilian administration,” writes Daniel Silva in The Rembrandt Affair. “He gave the job to Reichskommissar Arthur Seyss-Inquart, a fanatical anti-Semite who had presided over Austria after the Anschluss in 1938.” “Within days the decrees began. At first,...