Were there any Dutch Nazi collaborators? What did they do and were they organized outside of the Nazi party?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Read about the Dutch Nazi collaborators and how they reacted to Nazi occupation of Holland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
One of the most shocking aspects of the antisemitic campaign was how eagerly many ordinary Dutch people gleefully participated in it.<\/strong> The Netherlands had its own version of the German Hitler Youth, called the NSB. These were local Nazi sympathizers and Dutch Nazi collaborators, who espoused a hateful antisemitic ideology that found expression in terrorizing and harassing their Jewish neighbors. Corrie was aghast to discover that people whom she had known and seen in Haarlem in ordinary times were now enthusiastic participants in the gathering storm of hate as Dutch Nazi collaborators. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Disturbing changes began to present themselves. German uniforms and insignia became a common feature of ordinary life on the streets of Haarlem, while racist and antisemitic propaganda began to be published in once-respectable newspapers, now under the control of the Reich Ministry of Propaganda. Dutch Nazi collaborators only made it worse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Corrie knew that her activities were dangerous, and that she faced severe punishment\u2014even death\u2014at the hands of the Nazis if caught. She had been forced to lie in service of her work. But Casper reminded her that the lies that crossed her lips were spoken with love\u2014the love that he had always told her was the greatest and most powerful force in the universe. And she was prepared to face death in order to show that love, just as Christ had on the cross\u2014for, in sacrificing herself, there could be no greater act of love. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n All over Haarlem, tensions were stretched to the breaking point and Dutch collaboration with Nazis continued. The deprivations of wartime began to be felt all across the city as winter set in. Food and fuel were running constant shortages, taking a terrible toll on the very young and the very old\u2014including Christoffels, who finally succumbed to the cold and hunger in winter 1943.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Were there any Dutch Nazi collaborators? What did they do and were they organized outside of the Nazi party? Read about the Dutch Nazi collaborators and how they reacted to Nazi occupation of Holland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":13640,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,39],"tags":[123],"class_list":["post-13488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethics","category-history","tag-the-hiding-place","","tg-column-two"],"yoast_head":"\nDesperation Drove Corrie and Dutch Nazi Collaborators<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n