Hitler’s Netherlands

Life for Wilhelmina’s subjects under the Führer was unimaginably bleak

As a Nazi invasion became a reality, thousands of Jewish people attempted to flee to Britain and join their queen. Those that didn’t get away in time either had to go into hiding – like Otto Frank and his family including his daughter, Anne, who hid in the secret annexe of the house where he worked – or try to resist the new regime. As Louis de Jong explains, at first, “The Nazis didn’t want any resistance; they insisted on compliance” and they created “a situation akin to the one that had been realised in Germany, in which the non-Jewish majority would take little notice of what happened to Jews”; one of the methods used to do this was by making assisting Jews – in any way – a crime.…

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