Amsterdam "The City That Remembers"
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- Опубліковано 21 тра 2013
- This DVD is digitally converted from the original broadcast tape master of a 30 minute documentary which I produced in Holland in 1997. This is a very personal project with one simple objective: to pass along to future generations awareness of the horrors of Nazi Germany's systematic genocide in WWII ... knowledge so easily lost and forgotten unless we keep it alive. After you have viewed this DVD, I hope you will place it in a school, library, church, synagogue, or other permanent place where it will be shown and viewed again and again for decades to come.
The idea for producing this documentary grew from my many trips to Amsterdam and the urging from a close friend there, Harry Moinat, that I interview Jewish survivors of the Dutch Holocaust before they all died. The more I learned the more I had to tell inspiring Amsterdam's story of resistance and determination.
Harry introduced me to a contemporary of Anne Frank, Jaap vanVelzen, who was just 12 years old when he escaped from his Nazi captors by brazenly slipping away from a kindergarten where he and other children were being held awaiting shipment to the death camps. After his escape he hid in the south of the Netherlands till war's end. He was the only member of his family to survive. Jaap later became a successful businessman and noted scholar regarding the Dutch Holocaust.
His childhood recollections are woven into this portrait of the systematic roundup of Jews, gypsies, homosexuals and the mentally impaired and their shipment out of Amsterdam using the city's own streetcars to deliver them at night to waiting Nazi freight cars at Amsterdam's central train station. From there they were shipped to Westerbork concentration camp before being sent on to their deaths at Auschwitz and other German death camps.
I wrote, shot, edited and narrated this documentary to share with you an understanding of why Amsterdam is truly "The City That Remembers."
Larry M. Ray
Thank you very much for this enlightening video. I am Dutch by birth, having come to Australia with my parents when I was 18 months old in 1951. I have for some strange reason had a huge interest in the Jewish history of their appalling suffering throughout Europe during WW2, having read many books telling the stories of the mistreatment and absolute abuse, but I was relatively uninformed about the affairs in the Netherlands. I have had the good fortune to visit The Netherlands several times between 2011 and 2018, catching up with some relatives I had never met before. I wish I had known about the Holland Theatre and the Jewish Museum. I will make a point of visiting both locations once Covid permits. If only the world at large would take on the lessons learned from this time in history.
Awesome video.....every informative. I am teaching my young son about WWII because the schools won't. I'll show him this video when I get to the Holland part of my WWII lesson plan for him.
Very good and well put together! You are correct, we should NEVER FORGET. I will share this video with friends and family. Thank you for the upload!
Go educate yourself and read some history books.
As a Dane, I feel so sorry for our similar neighbour, Holland, for so many of their fellow citizens being killed by the Germans. And that Holland's fate was so much worse than ours during the 2nd World War. A consolation that so many brave Dutch people saved so many jews. May your memory live forever.
Excellent video. While filmed in 1997, it is still a great summary of how Amsterdam reflects on the disaster it experienced.
Adam, I thank you for your kind comment. I still have good friends in Amsterdam and it is my understanding that my half hour documentary is still broadcast on local TV from time to time. I produced this in the hope that long after I am gone, this story will be viewed in order that we never forget.
Vriendelijke groeten, Larry
My dad was one of the Canadian soldiers who arrived in holland. He had lots of stories of day they arrived. Aww
One thing you will have a hard time confirming, but it is as true as the nose on your face, was that in 1944 and 1945 dozens of Canadian officers were executed by their own men and dumped into the canals of Holland. The powers that be don't want you to know that part of WWII. They don't want you to know that some Canadian officers were so hated by their own men that at their first chance their men slit their throats and/or shot them.
@@TailoredReaction Wow! I never heard that before!
@@Jaydon05 that's because it's utter nonsense. Father was there and their officers were not reviled at all.
@@TailoredReaction I call bullshit on that.
youre father is a hero
Thank you for telling this story. I was unaware of the horrible actions against the jews and the Dutch people during the war. I hope to be visiting the Netherlands soon and will be sure to visit all the places you have mentioned.
I love Amsterdam & the Dutch. When I was 21 in the Spring of 1969, and caught up in the student takeover of the administration building at the University of Amsterdam, I escaped the police cordon, returning each day to join the large public crowd observing & supporting those inside. It was after a few days of this that the Dutch stunned me when, making way for police reinforcements in vans forcing their way through us, the Dutch all raised their right arms high as if on queue in a reenactment of the Nazi salute as the loaded police vans pushed their way through with sirens on. The message was sent!!...and the helmeted police emerged from the vans humbled. The once pushy & boisterous police commander became quiet. I felt grateful, at that moment, that we Americans had no such painful memory as Nazi occupation.
Wauw...!
Thank you for making this doco. I'm Dutch living in New Zealand, and I try hard to find real personal history of my Homeland during the war. Lest we forget.
here you go galileegreen.com/this-is-your-life/
@dominic k That's bull shit! And yes i am Dutch! My grand parents told me total diffeferent story's!
A nod to the Excellent narration! Great voice!
Remarkable that the role of the Amsterdam Policeforce in the rounding-up of the Jews early in the war, is completely left out in this documentary.
Also the local citizens/collaborators who told the Nazis where they were in hiding.
@Veneil And don't count out the 'Koninklijke Marechaussee (The Royal Dutch Militairy Police' who played an important role garding the Jews in the "Durchgangs-lager" Westerbork. A bloody shame!!
Being a Brit who had the good fortune to serve in The Netherlands I have a lot of time and admiration for the Dutch. As well as the Jewish people. the Dutch population as a whole went through hell during the war. They are an educated and civilised nation which has contributed much to Europe and the world as a whole and I wish everyone of them the best.
We have also got our problems and downsides, thank you for pointing out our beauty!
Thank you! That's very kind of you! :)
That's the whole thing right there. Germany too, from 1933 - 1945, was an educated and civilised nation. What happened in Germany starts with a few fanatics and grows and grows until good men do not think they have the power to stop it.
It can, and will, happen again.
@@TailoredReaction I hope so.
Semper Fidelis! Great post, thank you sir ....
This video is everything. I am Italian but Amsterdam it's my home and heart since 25 years. So much culture and memorials. Aushwitz never again
DO YOU MEAN HOLLAND OR THE NETHERLANDS?
i'm a proud Amsterdammer and enjoyed this fine and well-researched history video giving one of the best understandings of how so many Amsterdam Jews came to be murdered by Germans in WW2.
So I'm puzzled that STILL the The Netherlands is persistently referred to here as "Holland" - even in late 16th Century when Sephardic refugees arrived and it was just a Spanish colony and not a country, it's called here "the country Holland" Hallo!?
It's not splitting hairs when I point out that, NEVER in the last 1000 years was there ever a "country" that was formally called "Holland". 'Holland' is a kind-of friendly nickname that emerged in our neighbour, England, because their contact then was chiefly with North & South Holland (which are now 2 of the 11 Provinces that make up The Netherlands, but NEVER a country). This nickname, like much old English, transferred to English colonies in North America where "Holland" persisted (even in this video) to mean "The Netherlands". So much so, that I've met numerous Americans who think Holland and The Netherlands are 2 different countries.
I'm not actually bothered by this, but I'm puzzled as to the reason? EG in French, the true name of The Netherlands is Pays-Bas (accurately meaning "low-countries"). But by the English and their former colonies the nickname persists, even in more formal history documents like this video.
It would be as though we all refer to the United Kingdom simply as "England", ignoring the Union more than 300 years ago of England, Schotland, Wales into the UK. But NO modern historian would persistently say "England" to refer to the United Kingdom. Funny peculiar 😂👍🏻
Amsterdam’s nick name to this day is Mokum, which in Yiddish and Hebrew means ‘the place (to be)’ and ‘safe haven’. This is how the Jews felt here that fled the inquisitions in Spain and Portugal in the Middle Ages. Luckily, even after the Shoah, this atmosphere has remained in the city.
No, the atmosphere has NOT been maintained. There is an active and hostile Arab Muslim community, attempting to impose Shariah and Islamism thee. So:
Death tot Sharia. Death to Islamism. Death to the Global Jihad. Deport the Muslims NOW!
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Bent u wel goed bij uw hoofd?
Let us all never forget ‼️‼️🇨🇦🇨🇦
Very powerful and chilling. I won't walk these streets the same tomorrow.
I was in Amsterdam damn recently I ask some Dutch people what happened I was surprised to find out that when the Dutch Jews returned after the war the Dutch authorities refused to recognize them as Dutch and denied them the properties which they were removed from by the Germans,several Dutch told me the it wasn’t just the Germans who didn’t want the Jew either
dominic k relax pal that’s what Dutch people told me I know it must be hard for you to accept that but it’s the truth
People dislike competition. The Dutch were just like the Jews, and had a similar reputation in Europe.
@dominic k doesn't want you to know how the Dutch collaborated with the Nazis. Read.
THE NETHERLANDS: A COUNTRY WHICH REFUSES TO ADMIT ITS GUILT TOWARD THE JEWS
It would be mistaken to think that the failure to admit guilt and offer apologies will soon be forgotten.
BY MANFRED GERSTENFELD MAY 3, 2014
Originally, it was a remembrance day for the murdered and fallen during Germany’s occupation. In the past few years, the issue of memorializing the dead has been partly diluted and stripped of its significance. In several local memorial meetings, Jews are not mentioned specifically, even if they comprised the majority of local victims.
In 2012 at the national commemoration in Amsterdam, a 15-year-old boy was invited by the organizers to read a poem in memory of his relative after whom he was named, who had joined the SS. This was ultimately canceled, with great difficulty. Several Dutch towns also commemorate fallen German soldiers on May 4. After the small town of Geffen wanted to inscribe the names of its murdered Jews together with those of fallen Germans on its war memorial, relatives of the Jews protested. It was then decided to leave all names off the monument.
The above cannot be viewed as unrelated to the consistent Dutch refusal to admit the disinterest of the Dutch wartime government and Queen Wilhelmina in exile in London regarding the fate of Dutch Jews. The same goes for the massive collaboration of Dutch bureaucracy with the Germans in the occupied Netherlands.
However much the Dutch try to avoid it, this behavior is not forgotten. In February this year, Rabbi Abraham Cooper, associate dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles, wrote a letter to Dutch Deputy Prime Minister Lodewijk Asscher. The text focused on his request that the Dutch government investigate what caused almost 39 percent of the current Dutch adult population to accept the huge lie that Israel is conducting a war of extermination against the Palestinians.
Rabbi Cooper also wrote that it had been brought to his attention “that the Netherlands has neither admitted the negligence of its World War II government and the collaboration of the bureaucracy with German occupiers, nor offered any apologies. I believe the Netherlands is the only occupied country during the war where this is the case.” In his reply to the rabbi, Minister Asscher ignored this issue entirely.
The last time this topic got major attention in Dutch public opinion was when the Dutch daily De Pers devoted a front-page article to it. The article was based on two interviews from the appendix of my book Judging the Netherlands: The Renewed Holocaust Restitution Process 1997-2000. Two former Dutch deputy prime ministers, Els Borst - who was murdered earlier this year - and Gerrit Zalm, declared that they would publicly support the government if it offered apologies to the Jewish community.
That same day, parliamentarians Geert Wilders and Raymond de Roon posed parliamentary questions to Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte. They asked him why the Netherlands would not offer apologies to the Jewish community for the country’s misconduct toward the Jews during the Holocaust. Thereafter, the Associated Press published two articles on this issue which were picked up by hundreds of media outlets all over the world.
Rutte got away with an entirely irrelevant reply. He referred to a Dutch government declaration from the year 2000. However, the apologies offered to the Jewish community then were unrelated to the war period, but referred to the formalistic, bureaucratic and heartless post-war restitution process. Even those apologies were only half-truths, as they claimed that this unacceptable attitude had not been intentional.
There were, however, many documented cases in which Dutch policy toward the Jews was quite deliberate. At the time it was already known that the post-war finance minister had preferred the interests of the stock market brokers who collaborated heavily with German occupiers, above those of the original Jewish owners of stolen securities.
Since then, a variety of other intentional examples of post-war misconduct toward the Jews have become known. The most recent is that the Amsterdam Municipality charged and fined Jews for non-payment of their wartime long-lease debts accrued during the Second World War. Their homes had been expropriated for use by Germans and Dutch Nazi collaborators. A few years ago it had already become known that Jewish survivors in Amsterdam were forced to pay gas and electricity bills accrued for their expropriated homes, after they returned from German camps or hiding.
Recently, art historian Professor Rudi Ekkart gave another example of deliberate post-war discrimination by Dutch authorities. At the beginning of this century, he headed a government commission which investigated the restitution of stolen artwork which had been returned by the American occupation authorities in Germany. He said that the Finance Ministry wanted to sell as much of the art as possible for the benefit of the Dutch Treasury.
They were opposed by directors of museums and the Education, Art and Science Ministry, which considered this “a good occasion to build a better national art collection.”
Ekkart added, “The voices of those who were entitled to them -former owners and their heirs - were not heard.”
Can all these shortcomings be explained by the Dutch national character? This is too hasty a conclusion. In 2005, then-president of Dutch Railways Aad Veenman offered apologies to the Dutch Jewish community for the collaboration of his firm with the Germans in the transport of Jews on the first leg of the journey to their deaths.
The railways organized a major publicity campaign detailing what had happened during the war. It was a very good example - by international standards too - of how one can deal with a difficult past.
The Dutch government can continue to ignore the misconduct of its predecessors during the Second World War.
However, it would be mistaken to think that the failure to admit guilt and offer apologies will soon be forgotten.
www.jpost.com/Opinion/Op-Ed-Contributors/The-Netherlands-A-country-which-refuses-to-admit-its-guilt-toward-the-Jews-351234
@Roosje Keizer I agree with you Rose, this type of attitude is not only wrong, but not true. There are many people that have so much hate, either for Jews, Muslims or whomever! We are all human beings and are made of the same parts and pieces...so get along people....and be respectful.
Thank you to all who care and protect, rather than hate and destroy. The fight against Evil continues. The past defenders of Goodness inspire us today to continue their work, and lead our lives accordingly.
Ben M you definitely need to watch " The greatest story never told"
Let's hope that future historians will tell the true story of Israel and their impact on the Palestinians.
Many of my kinsman were in the Dutch resistance and died at the hands of the SS, usually stood up against a wall and shot.
Brave men and women, I’m sure!
Excelent documentary. Thnks for sharing
Awesome documentary, I enjoyed Amsterdam immensely 💖
Even by 1970 ,25 years after the war when I visited Holland from Scotland and my cousin who was a translator , he advised me not to speak German which I learned at school , as memories of the occupation were still strongly-felt by those over 45.
In 1970,Amsterdam was packed with young people under 30 on my visit from Aerdeen and I loved the Ambonese food with the hot tray and lovely dishes with eastern spices.
I visited Maduradam tiny model village of Holland , the Rembrandt museum you could move around unlike tourist crowding today,got burnt on the beach in The Hague ,saw the old ladies in traditional clothes on trams where you bought tickets in tobacco shops and they got punched on the tram.
I hadn,t discovered Louis Davids till 1986 in a second hand shop in Zimbabwe which was a 10 inch lp introduced by his mother -that in itself a rarity.
Thank you for your video. My relatives are from Amsterdam. There is very little information on this subject in english. The only other video was on the military channel on cable TV it was from the 1970's. We need more english books, websites and videos on the Dutch Jewish population of WWII.
this is my family's story in english about their experience surviving the war in Holland .galileegreen.com/this-is-your-life/
This is very well made. Very moving. RD
Thank You 🙏 this was very informative information about my heritage ,my mother was born In Amsterdam Holland to Dutch Parents my grandfather was 1/2 Dutch n 1/2 German, my mom told me about Ann Frank and her family when l was a little girl she also told me about the Second World War , my parents also told me how they met and that they married in Amsterdam Holland, l am proud of my Dutch and American Heritage, the Dutch were nice people 💁♀️💙🙏🙏
I hope everyone remembers that Amsterdam Police played a huge part in arrest and deportation of Jews!
It's hard to forget, surely?
But what was a viable, alternative course of action that the Amsterdam Polities could have taken, do you think?? What would you have done?
The music of this vid is totally unadapted to such a serious and dramatic topic. It's undecent.
Buck breaker here
Watching this video from Amsterdam from my Europe tour and did not know that this city had so much dark history..
Thank you. I know a lot about the history of the Holocaust in the Netherlands thanks to Anne Frank, but this was really interesting.
I'm from Grand Rapids, Michigan. Grand Rapids has always had a large Dutch-American population. My barber was originally from Amsterdam. He told me of how his family would hide Dutch Jews and, in the event they were found by the Nazis, the children would have had their hair dyed blond to pass as Dutch Christians. The Dutch are wonderful people.
thank you
The Dutch founded New Amsterdam in 1609 until 1664, when the English captured it and renamed it New York City, after the Duke of York.
Yes. That was an integral part of this video.
Amsterdam "The City That Remembers"?!... Don't make me laugh!... After the war Amsterdam demanded and collected municipal back taxes on properties the Jews were forced out from and couldn't use at the time for which the taxes were being demanded!... And, when forced to repay those taxes, after many decades, the people who were owed those taxes were no longer alive... Amsterdam claimed that it was impossible to track the people and/or heirs so they decided to use the funds for public works related to Jews... Then, to top off their arrogance they willfully (and illegally) destroyed the records in question...
I myself am Dutch and I'm very happy to admit our errors...
You need to identify as human above all else. Not a language or a nationality, but a sentient species of animal that lives on earth.
Perhaps, a Dutchman took a page right from history concerning record disposal and applied that dirty trick to the originators....
Chosen ones my ass!!
When anyones life is at stake......they will do ANYTHING to live!
Dont put blame on people who ad no choice.!
The struggle of the small number of Jews who survived and returned to Amsterdam to find their homes occupied by Dutch families and the demands for back taxes and rents on top of their fight to rebuild their lives against a continued anti-Semitic attitude in some parts of the city is vividly told in an award winning novel 'MENDELEVSKI'S BOX' published by Amsterdam Publishers
@Roosje Keizer I appreciate English is only your second language so clearly you misunderstood my post. I did not claim that ALL Dutch were anti-semitic at all I observed that an anti-semitic attitude was still present IN SOME PARTS OF THE CITY. This became evident during my research for my book and came direct from those who remembered and or experienced it in the Jordaan in late 1945.
The music is Totally inappropriate. Thank You for the video.
A very compelling story about this great and compassionate city. My only complaint is the soundtrack, which detracts from the message of the film.
Is dat niet mogelijk om deze en andere filmpjes van vroeger op de televisie uit te zenden! Ik weet zeker dat veel mensen daar naar zouden kijken. Ik kijk op nederland 2 wel eens naar vroeger tijden e.d.
Sad times at the time so many lives lost to ideology all unessery
Es war kinderleicht fur die Deutsche armee , leicher als Ostereich.
Very few Nazis were brought to justice.
Read about how the American elite hsd its men (former lawyers for I.G. Farben in the U.S.) reinstating many top Nazis and backers of Hitler to power in Western Germany after 1950: they allowed many jailed war-criminals to go free by 1958. The same thing happened in Japan under MacArthur. The 'fascists' were never "rooted out" and the men and women who'd fought the war were betrayed.
@@None-zc5vg Less than 1100 Nazis were prosecuted after WWII. A huge number were given refuge in USA.
When you lose someone that you really like. Things change.
Mass human kidnapping trafficking torture forced labour Germany should be made to compensate biiigtime big-time I mean trillions and every survivor given houses tho that's not the point you cannot put a price on this type of suffering horrific
I don't know how the people of the Netherlands could ever forgive the Krauts for what they did.Thankfully,we were protected by the English channel otherwise we could have gone the same way.
For long we thought nor very good about them. But, today we are good friends. In a way, we have a lot in common, just like with the Brits and the Scandinavian country's..
Amsterdam remembers ,, yeah right !!!!!!
You doubt it??
Lemmy M Why do you believe that they haven’t ?
only fools seek to forget the lessons of the past; DON'T live in the past learn from it... many seek to hide truth or hide from the truth because of shame (humans do have a very viscous streak) or fear. This type of horror will come again if we are not alert and discerning.
AND THE TRUTH SHALL SET YOU FREE...
Good for you Amsterdam!
not a big fan of the music that was playing during the part where the narrator talks about the anne frank house. its way too upbeat. offensive much?
Do you remember about NSB and Anton Mussert ?
NSB*
@@gerhard7095 You are right. I will correct it, thanks
In this day of increasing antisemitism it is uttermost important to learn about the fate of fhe Jews in the period of 1933-1945, and beyond. The Jews living in our countries nowadays, have nothing to do with the Israeli politics and what happens in Gaza. I detest all the protesters attacking the Jewish people here and elsewhere in Europa and wherever.
yup...
Hate never helps anyone. The only person who will be happy with hate is a person from the year 500.
my hometown, was freed by the canadians...they can stay for free, in my hometown, around the 5th of may....(the US left us there,for more then 6 mnths,having the strongest winter,for a long time....lot of people starved....rest of Europe,had been freed.....i hate politics)
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not all of us,were "ok". PLEASE watch this 1
@uta gordon Yes, my dad almost starved to death too in Rotterdam in the hunger winter, he already had a 'ricebelly' (oedeem) and the doctor said to his mum: (he could hear what was said) "Your son won't get to the end of the winter.." He was the oldest of 5 sons, and 15 years old when the war was over, he and the rest of the family made it thank God!
Amsterdam: the city that collaborated, you mean.
You are wrong, my uncle was executed in 1942 near Amsterdam because he did not collaborate, au contrare.
Like Mosley in Brittan,Quisling in Norway Vichy govermant in France so what do you mean ???
My Dad Suvived world war And Holland Teamed Up With Finland Cause They Refused Of There land Being Destroyed And only Them were Peaceful with each other
Very sad
In most cases “Holland” is incorrect, the Netherlands would be correct in that place
Why do the dutch cry huuup Holland , if it is not Holland?
Wolf Müller - It's both. Informally "Holland" and formally "Kingdom of the Netherlands". ManDieAloesKan is just being pedantic.
ManDieAllesKan - Wolf Müller - It's both. Informally "Holland" and formally "Kingdom of the Netherlands". ManDieAloesKan is just being pedantic.
ITS THE NETHERLANDS
Wow, The Germans Went Insane Back Then.
What about Rotterdam?...Our city got bombed by the nazis, and later rebuild to become the most modern city in The Netherlands.
@dominic k How old are you?
@dominic k Can you please go back to the you''r beloved Germany!!
All evils of the past such as mindless genocides, colonialism, slavery etc should never be forgotten.
There should also be a special place in hell for those who distort history.
The Dutch quickly forgot how terrible it is for another country to brutally occupy another as they immediately tried to re-occupy and brutally conquer Indonesia after being liberated from the Nazis.
"...and be treated 'more or less' as equals" What the hell does that mean? Either you are treated as 'equal' or you're not. ha
These are the same people that gave up Anne Franke to the Nazis. The Dutch had the fewest people of the occupied countries involved in resistance, but plenty of collaborators.
Lipski, my boy.
Dutch resistance could not mean much look at the numbers..
the Amsterdam policemen were active in assisting the Germans when they organized a raid to round up Jews.
Yes! Goodbye Joooos.
what the fuck is with the music?
Better you watch the film: WA mars Amsterdam 1940
It is flat wrong to blame only the Nazis for the Holocaust. Nazi should not be used as a generic term. Once in power Hitler capped membership in the Nazi Party, so only a fraction of the German population was Nazi. But, without the backing of the German Wehrmacht the Nazis could not have committed the Holocaust. All Germans are to blame.
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Let's hope that future historians will tell the truth about Israel and their impact on the Palestinians.
Are you seriously trying to imply some sort of equivalence here? Ludicrous.
Bruh the original comment doesn't matter anymore. Go fight it out in the replies lads.
name one?
Many Dutch supported the Nazis. More than likely so did you or your Parents / grand parents. Schmuck.
Funny, the NSB only had 4/75 seats in parlement. And the 'Provinciale Staten' went from 44 in 1935 to 21 in 1939. So what support?
And saying we Dutch supported the Nazis is treason to our country.
Then you are a fairy!
Excuse me..the Dutch May have ideals but they did not and do not “fight” for them.
My uncle was Dutch and murdered by the Nazi's in 1942 for fighting against them. So clearly you are wrong as my uncle proved.
Many Dutch were executed!
Belanda menjajah Indonesia serasa tidak bersalah, eh di serang Jerman kaing kaing...😂😂😂
Except that not every Dutch person is responsible for the occupation of Indonesia. Should you suffer for the occupation of Aceh or Papua?
Amsterdam , the city that liked it a little too much.
This story does tell only a small part. Moving though this is, the True causes of WW2 are not discussed here. The media has deliberately obscured this for years, but a quick search for the causes on the internet will bring these tragic circumstances into their Real perspective. Cross reference everything you see on here -including this comment !
And those causes are?
Only half the story.
Then you tell us the other half!
This video whitewashes what happened in the Netherlands during the war. The Dutch police, the Dutch civil service and the Dutch railways we're all active in rounding up and deporting Jews and were encouraged by the Dutch fascist party, the NSB. There were five concentration camps in the Netherlands, operated with the assistance of Dutch citizens. The Church in the Netherlands was also heavily influenced by the anti-Semitic teachings of Martin Luther and this filtered down to many Dutch citizens. These assisted in roundup Jews and stealing their property.
The Holocaust museums in Amsterdam ignore all this and entirely blame the Germans for the fact that so many of the Netherlands Jews were murdered.
As below mentioned. The dutch really acted durch in this case... Its common knowledge that the dutch basically barely resisted and sold out the jewish population.. Anne frank was a rare case tbh.. You need to account tho that the dutch population is germanic , its a small country and at the time it didnt really have an army. What i mainly blame is the ease germans had in finding the jews. They had lots of cooperation from dutch civilians aswell.
The Dutch sold out big time. They were gagging to please their Nazi mates.
Every thing you claim is false go back to school and get educated,because a lot off good not jewish man and women died in the resistance!!!!!Youre statement is really shamefull and stupid.Go get educated and shut youre mouth !!!!!!!
Discover the role of the Dutch Catholic Party in rounding up all Jews for deportation. No jew survived in the South of the country and the largest portion of non German SS came from there.
What about the French? I know many Dutch who gave their lives. Also a flat and small land.
Amsterdam is a muslim city today.
And now most popular name in Netherlandistan is Mohammed. Bravo!
tetejac33 how's it going geert wilders?
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Het is maar een naam. Mensen zoals jij starten deze hele afschuwelijke geschiedenis gewoon weer opnieuw. Omdat je een haat en afkeer opwekt tegen een mens, net als de Duitse Nazis die afkeer opwekte bij de Duitse bevolking tegen de Joden. Als je die parallel niet ziet, dan heb je totaal niets geleerd van dit afschuwelijke hoofdstuk....
LunaJo67 geschiedenis herhaald zich altijd en die hoofdoekjes verdienen het
Jezus, wat een enorm dom antwoord. Dom, onnozel, racistisch en gevaarlijk. De geschiedenis herhaalt zich dankzij mensen als jij, die totaal geen empathie of gevoel hebben tegenover hun medemens. Laten we hopen dat de geschiedenis zich ook herhaald en mensen straft voor hun wandadane tegenover de mensheid.
Met haat en intolerantie kom je er niet in de wereld. Maar gelukkig graaf je vooral je eigen graf daarmee. Super triest dat er mensen zijn die het maar niet willen snappen en maar blijven doorgaan in hun neanderthaler gedrag.
Oh how it HURTS my ears to hear the Dutch words pronounced in GERMAN!!! Great documentary otherwise! But this should NOT have happened! Easy to prevent this and obviously not a very nice touch...
Lies...............
Schwanzel Stock fascist
tatasare rule the plane5t goof
Holland was occupied by the Germans simply because the Dutch government failed to announce official neutrality and offered use of it's territory to the military aggressions of the democratic allies of Britain, France, USA. Had the Benelux nations officially offered their neutrality - as Sweden, Switzerland, Spain, Portugal and Ireland did, those nations would not have been involved in the war at all. All this is easily discernable from the available documentation from the time.
Mark the Nazis couldn't invade Ireland cause that's means they would have to take on England.
Thank God the Canadians dropped by then, because all they had to do was:
Nazis to Kill.
and
Dutch to Feed.
End Of Story. !!!
ehhh false !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@@shawncavanagh401 THANK YOU !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
in the end you brings all this shit to Palestine .and my father's and mother have to go and to leave in the desert..very nice history's
Palestinians were allied to Hitler.
Does the name Haj Amin Al Husseini ring a bell
I guess the makers of video don’t want to offend non Jewish Amsterdamers? As mentioned in comments the police and civil service Enforced the persecution of Jews. The movie en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riphagen is very good.