{"id":39130,"date":"2023-05-01T01:00:27","date_gmt":"2023-05-01T05:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=39130"},"modified":"2023-04-30T10:05:20","modified_gmt":"2023-04-30T14:05:20","slug":"qotd-the-netherlands-under-nazi-occupation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2023\/05\/01\/qotd-the-netherlands-under-nazi-occupation\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: The Netherlands under Nazi occupation"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right; padding: 0px 0px 10px 25px\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-48672\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png 400w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-50x50.png 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>Not that the Netherlands is completely at ease with its record under the Nazi occupation. Seven thousand Dutchmen volunteered for the SS, and a higher proportion of Dutch Jews died in the Holocaust \u2014 three-quarters of them, more than twice the proportion in Belgium, for example, and three times more than in France \u2014 than in any other occupied country of Western Europe. Whatever the reasons for this disproportion \u2014 the relatively unpropitious Dutch landscape for a life of clandestinity is surely one \u2014 unease about it is inevitable. According to one historian of the Holocaust in the Netherlands, Marnix Croes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<p><em>On the whole, the Dutch reacted to the German occupation, including the persecution of the Jews, with a high degree of cooperation, following their reputed tradition of deference to authority. This did not change when the deportations started, and it lasted until the beginning of 1943. &#8230; [T]here was for a long time little doubt that the bureaucracy would not sabotage German-imposed measures, and in fact these were thoroughly implemented.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As Croes observed, &#8220;the Dutch bureaucracy assisted the Germans, primarily through population registration; the Dutch police helped, and Dutch bounty hunters, lured by blood money, tracked down Jews in hiding&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Theodore Dalrymple, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.city-journal.org\/html\/cheapest-insult-15138.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;The Cheapest Insult: The <em>reductio ad Hitlerum<\/em>: a refuge of tired minds&#8221;, <em>City Journal<\/em><\/a>, 2017-06-19.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not that the Netherlands is completely at ease with its record under the Nazi occupation. Seven thousand Dutchmen volunteered for the SS, and a higher proportion of Dutch Jews died in the Holocaust \u2014 three-quarters of them, more than twice the proportion in Belgium, for example, and three times more than in France \u2014 than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,1118,7,41,230],"tags":[457,1041,222,1289],"class_list":["post-39130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe","category-germany","category-history","category-quotations","category-ww2","tag-fascism","tag-holocaust","tag-netherlands","tag-theodoredalrymple"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-ab8","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39130"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81803,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39130\/revisions\/81803"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}