How the Dutch Remember World War II
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- The Second World War in the Netherlands was during the period of 1940 to 1945. How do the Dutch remember WW II? The Netherlands during WW II is known as a profound period in Dutch history. The German invasion of the Netherlands lasted five days. After the German conquest of Holland was completed the German occupation of the Netherlands began. My grandparents have told me many stories of World War Two in the Netherlands. A topic often told about is the Dutch resistance. Views about Dutch collaborators have changed lately. In recent years different perspectives on WW II and the Netherlands are being elaborated on. In this video Stefan will explain everything about the Dutch recollection of Holland during WW II. One of the most if not THE most important period in the history of the Netherlands.
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The funny is how indonesian are win in battle of surabaya 10 november 1945
How that begin the war. first brittish comender aubertin mallaby was dead began the battle when the battle indonesian armory only have arisaka weapon from japanese, thomson , BAR,and many weapon
@@HistoryHustle ahhh, thank you! some Danish, and even French bought into this ideal as well.
My grandmother was alive when the 2nd world war ended, she once told me a story of a German soldier coming through their house too look/ask for blankets. He asked whether they had any and she told them no, the German soldier asked her whether there weren't even any in their cupboard and she said no. Of course he knew she was lying and she told her she could force her too open up everything and he could just take, however he didn't want too. He said goodbye and that story taught me that even among the bad there is good.
Yes, especially in the early occupation years the Germans weren't that harsh. And not all Germans were bad. Thanks for sharing.
Indeed. Often people will just say that they (the Wehrmacht) were evil or that they were clean. As I see it they are an incredible grey area. Within it, there were people such as this soldier, and those that are monsters in human skin. What is important for people to understand is that we cannot simply take a single soldier and have them be the example of the rest of the organization. The entire debate about the Wehrmacht cannot be answered in an absolute manner and I find that doing so is dangerous.
The movie Fury is one exact picture that the Allies weren't all good, so to see what is good or bad depends on witch perspective you're looking at. Not all germans where bad and not all Allies where good. But the story of the winning side always rules
My grandfather weee friended wirt anne frank
The Germans weren’t the bad side it’s just that they lost, the allies bombed non military targets which is a crime they never answered for.
My father was one of the Canadian soldiers who served in Holland during the second world war. He always talked about how kind the Dutch people were. We celebrate remembrance day on November 11.
Respect to your father. Thanks for sharing, Arnie!
Thank you very much on behalf of my family💐 from Overijssel.
Canadians continue to plant tulips in our country from Netherlands. It is wonderful to see them bloom every spring as a thank you from Netherlands as a liberator in WW2.
I have a wonderful story when i visited Netherlands about 20 years ago. I entered a shop driving my way from Ghent, Belgium to Amsterdam, i don't remember the small town I was in. There was an older lady in the rear of the store and when she saw the Canadian flag stitched on my backpack, she stood up and started thanking me and humming Canadian folk songs. I was absolutely amazed and quite surprised. So the owner of the shop then approached me and told me the story of the lady, which was her aunt. How a Canadian force helped liberate her town in WW2 and rebuilt the local school for children and Canadian songs were taught by the soldiers before they left. It's amazing almost 60 years later, she had remember the songs and was still thankful.
Amazing! Thanks for sharing.
Plus the British who fought to liberate Netherlands.
My great grandparents on my dads side lived in holland when it was invaded. The farm they lived on was taken over and they were forced to give most of there food to German soldiers, which led to them immigrating to Canada
Thanks for posting this! So you are Canadian with Dutch roots?
@@HistoryHustle im fully dutch blood
@@goosey4840 Cheers!
My family was part of the resistance. We came to the US in 45.
Wow a roots of true NAZI ( DUTCH )
Respect to our friends in the netherlands. from the UK
👍
Same here in the Dutch 👍
My grandfather was part of the resistance in Noord-Brabant, thanks for making this. Keep up the good work with the content man, you deserve way more views / attention. As long as you share something you are passionate about views don't really matter and you got some unique content, so I am sure people will find you in the future!
Thank you!
My great grand father used to give resistance fighters shelter
back to the days I walk on my feet across the Utrecht and i slept in Bunnik :)
answering your question, when Poles celebrate liberation every time they mention that it was liberation from one occupier replaced by another, much worse, we remember that our country and even our flag was not on the day of the Winner when the Allies celebrated defeating Germany. Our real liberation came only in 1989. On Friday, May 8, 2015, we celebrate National Victory Day for the first time. President Bronisław Komorowski signed an act in this matter, which at the same time abolishes the Victory and Freedom Day, celebrated until May 9 and functioning on the calendar since 1945, when the decree established it by the communist authorities.
Great that you've been in Utrecht. Thanks for your comment, Karol.
Resistance Banker brought me here, really. It's a good movie, and I had no idea that the Dutch almost completely financed the resistance.
I'm glad you enjoyed the movie. It sure gives an interesting peek into the Netherlands during WWII.
Biggest fraud in history at the time. I would like to explain it to you but unfortunately I am smarter than you so you won't understand it. These words resulted in the firing squad.
Bankier van Verzet ìs ook een goede film
@@Jamy-dc9kk hij heeft het over die film resistance banker is de Engelse naam van de film
It was a very well kept secret
Potverdorie joh, dat doe je goed! Goed dat je alle nuances benoemt en inderdaad dat verschil: "wij" waren niet heroïsch maar trachtten te overleven. Goeie video.
Bedankt. Binnenkort meer over Nederland in WO2. Groet!
History Hustle jij bent ook NL?
I know this is an old comment and im going to reply in english, but do you think that the goal of all the heroes in different countries when actively fighting the occupator was to be 'heroisch' or 'trachten overleven'? You think they did it because they thought "Hey in 20 or so years there will be statues everywhere of us and we will go down in history as heroes! WE WILL BE IMMORTAL!" or did they try to make sure that their nation and culture actually survives by fighting for it? If every nation in the world assumed the "Trachten te overleven" stance we'd all be nazis or soviets now. Its good to have values and be willing to die for them. As some say I'd rather die standing then live kneeling.
@@adrianmach3608 Thanks for your reply, no matter that it's late ... and I can go along a way with your views here. You're more or less right: though most people were probably just trying to survive and go on with everyday live and it's challenges under occupation there were ofcourse more than a handfull of people who really stood for their beliefs and stood up for them. Picked up whatever weapon and faced the challenge, fought the good fight and we've got to be thankfull for that, really. I've no idea what I would do, given the circumstances. It's like in Ukraine now: there's people just trying to cope with it, and there's people picking up weapons and defending their country and fellow men without heroïsm in mind, really. Yes: it's good to have values. Willingly taking risks and maybe dying for them is another thing and not given to anyone: it has to be taken.
Us Spaniards don't remember the war as a devastating war for us because we simply didn't officially participate in it. However, we do remember the División Azul (Blue Division) that was sent to fight against the Soviets. The Spanish Nationalists had recently won a civil war against the left-wing Republicans which were helped by the Soviets and we saw it as an act of revenge. The Spanish performed really good in the war and Soviet troops feared the Spanish as much as the Germans. Some of the last soldiers defending Berlin were Spaniards. Some Spaniards honour and remember these men who fought, others simply don't care and the rest hate on them for being related to the Nazis. So in Spain, it really depends on which person you're asking.
Interesting, thanks for sharing!
As a Canadian I appreciated this piece. I know that Canada liberated Holland but I didn’t know the history before we got involved. I love the friendship Canada shares with the Netherlands and it’s nice to know a bit more of the struggle and strife that led up to e day. Thx for the video
Thanks for your reply. More about the Canadian liberation here:
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Tons of respect for Canada...and Poland 🇵🇱 in Holland during WWII. And grateful for Gander during 911. Talk about standing to!🇺🇸🇨🇦🇳🇱
About 10 years ago, I was stuck in my hotel in The Hague. It was a really rainy Saturday and I was playing "spin the dial" on the TV. I stumbled onto a Rememberance Day parade and decided to watch it. Units of the Dutch Army and veterans were marching in review with a Dutch Army band playing. All of a sudden, I heard the band playing "Stars and Stripes Forever." My father was one of the few Americans who were in The Netherlands right after liberation and he loved it. It impressed hell out of me that the Dutch people remember like they do.
Thanks for sharing!
Great video man, i'm an english student living in the Netherlands at the moment, just returning from a trip to Utrecht and Rotterdam, great to see some history behind the vast differences between the cities
Hey man, great you went to visit both of these cities, cheers!
My grandma was born in a japanese prison camp and lived there for the first 3 years of her life
Thanks for sharing. I have another video about that if you are interested:
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Title: “Dutch”
Dutch people: Gekoloniseerd
Tja..
Nouja, tis wel een beetje respectloos of niet? Geintjes maken over de kolonisatie als het gaat over WW2.
@@Widdekuu91 kolonisatie is iets van ver voor de 1e wereldoorlog
@@Widdekuu91 nee.
@@damonlawson9447
Maakt dat uit dan?
Thanks for ur video! I'm studying much about collaboration with nazi germans across whole Europe. France, Italy, Netherlands even UK and appreciating still more the fact that Poland as the country which suffered the most during ww2 has the lowest rate of collaborators and the one of the biggest resistance movements at that time. Glory to our true heroes.
Thanks for your comment Lukas. Soon I will make video's about SS volunteers from countries like the Netherlands. Collaboration is an interesting topic.
I lived the first 35 years of my life in Australia where my Dutch grandparents moved to in 1954 with their 7 children.
I now live in USA,... My grandmother was born in Amsterdam & my grandfather not far from you in Utrecht,... He was born in Oudewater in 1911.
Oudewater is close to where I live. Thanks for sharing!
We will remember them
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Two of my relatives died fighting the Germans in ww2. One from Holland on my dads side, and the second from Canada on my mother’s side.
My grandparents immigrated to Canada before the end of the war.
My moms family had already bin living in Canada. I know a few other Canadians that have lost loved ones during the war.
We have monuments in every city across this country with the names of Canadians who fought in the war.
I have a monument only 25 minutes from home that has my relatives name on it.. with the rest of the soldiers that gave their lives for others.
Respect to all veterans. 🇨🇦 🇳🇱 🤞🏻
Thanks for your comment. Very interesting to read. You happen to speak any Dutch? ;)
I wish there were more videos of what the Dutch went through. My father went through the war as a child!! He always told me how beautiful it was beautiful the occupation. Him and his family immigrated to Canada. Maybe one day I can come to my fathers homeland
Thanks for your comment. You have a Dutch surname. Interesting backstory. More videos about Netherlands during WWII will be uploaded in the future.
Holland had a very high number volunteers who joined the ss,. but lots of other European nations had volunteers too, there was British Frei corp of ss. Lots of SS volunteers just hated communism. you always get a warm welcome in Holland if your British, lovely people the Dutch
Thanks for the comment. It is true about the Dutch volunteers. Many of them needed a sense of belonging or seeked for adventure. Happy you like the Dutch, appreciate the comment Eric!
The Federal Police outright cooperated. They manned Westerborg concentration camp. The only German was the commandant. The Amsterdam slang word smeris is not like the English copper it just outright animosity.
eric yea the British SS was small as fuck and if you actually look into it you would realise they basically never fought only like 1 man in it was a hardcore facist and some men in it actually were helping other British prisoners who hadn’t signed up. As they were offered by the Germans to only fight on the Eastern Front. The Dutch SS on the other hand got there hands very dirty in the war.
@@Normalguy1690 Yes and no. These men mostly did fighting duties and a part of them did not participate in crimes against the population. This is what we know now. Recently it came to light that during the Battle of East Prussia, near Königsberg (now Kaliningrad) French and Belgian SS units participated in a death march of Jews. Perhaps we will find evidence about these Dutch SS troops also. I want to make a future video about this.
it's not called holland but the netherlands if you don't know what you are talking about then don't talk at all. btw the dutch hate the brittish.
That's a very nice and very objective short documentary. Not black&white. This is the reality: no nation on Earth consists only of heros. Most people simply want to survive and come over the hard times, and it is unfair when people who have not experienced this by themselves are mocking about it.
Thanks for your comment!
Remember the fallen, and remember your history! If not, you're doomed to repeat it! The older generations of Dutchmen remember their history because they lived it, but I'm not so sure about the younger generations, especially when I hear what they say about Americans in general! I would like to remind them of operation Market Garden, "The Bridge too far" and the Marshall plan, and when the British and Canadians were liberating the Netherlands, the U.S. military was holding off a German counter offensive in places like Bastogne. I thank God for the great sacrifices of my fellow Americans, and I weep for those poor Bastards of Bastogne!
True.
Amen
It was especially traumatic because the Germans were mostly regarded as good neighbours and a related nation.
During WW1 the general attitude also wasn't anti German, but more anti British due to the Boer war.
And there was never any love lost between the Dutch and the French.
Still not actually....
This changed very much after the war, and it took more than 50 years before we could forgive them and the generation who witnessed nazi occupation gradually died out.
Well said Walter. My grandparents grew over their resentment I suppose. As of today not many people here in the Netherlands are fierce anti-German I would say. Obviously some jokes here and there will occur. Perhaps that will never change. What do you think?
@@HistoryHustle There was an old childless couple we knew well, who during 1918-1920 took in starving, malnurished German and Austrian children.
One of them had the audacity to visit them in uniform, thinking he could talk with them about the good old times. He was stationed in the Netherlands because he knew Dutch. He was sent away/thrown out by them with a Biblical curse! ''Vervloekt zijt gij in uw liggen en uw staan, in uw ingaan en uw uitgaan, bij dag en bij nacht, en in leven en dood.'' This to me seems an appropriate metaphore for the attitute of many Dutch people, who felt utterly betrayed and deeply disappointed by the Germans.
Yes indeed, very interesting casus you present here. Thanks for sharing this!
Atleast from my perspective it atleast seems that my generation (born in the 90's) indeed seems like we are just kinda brothers with the germans, but that said of course we will joke about them and probably they about us. But for me is also maybe because I knew that in our history we always had a good relations with Germany or German states, as only exceptions then WW2 and why I can also understand that the generation during the war feelt like we got betrayed by the germans
In my home town of Enschede, there was never that much of an open anti-German view. The shops thrived on them. The attitude was more like "can we trust them?" On May 13th 2000 it turned out we could. When a fireworksfactory exploded the Germans noticed a pillar of smoke in the West and sent firetrucks and ambulances. Was the attitude before that gruesome day more like: We don't trust them Germans. Now it's more like we are neighbours and equals.
Not that the Germans were really hated, German TV was in the 1970's more popular than Dutch TV. Shopping trips to Germany were and are quite normal. Even my granddad who was sent to Germany for forced labour went happily to Germany to go on holidays or to shop.
The past is the past and them Germans sure have good wine my granddad said. It was his way to forgive.
Interesting post, thanks for your reply, Jeroen!
Respect to this channel for responding almost every comment
Thanks! I try my best, but to many polarized comments I don't have the time to respons.
My parents, Grandparents, Aunts and Uncles suffered under nazi rule. They remember vividly the day the Canadians came to liberate Holland. My mom remembers it like it was yesterday. My grandfather on my dad's was twice picked up by the germans to be shipped off to work in Germany, and twice he escaped. After the war the decision was made to emigrate to Canada as things were pretty tough in Holland after the war. I also think that the bond between Canada and the Netherlands had a lot to do with their decision to come here. Your future queen was born in Ottawa after all. And if memory serves correct Dutch children still light candles on the graves of the Canadian soldiers. So the bond between Canada and the Netherlands remains strong to this day. Thank you for posting these videos of Holland during the war. This is a history that is often overlooked as is Canada's involvement in the second world war. Keep up the good work!
Thanks Will, and thanks for sharing your family's story. Cheers!
Future queen? She was already a Adult when the war happened.... Juliana died in the late 20th century
@@Jamy-dc9kk Pretty sure he's talking about Princess Margriet as she was born in Canada during the war. Some people hear princess and automatically assume next in line and don't realize she was the third daughter.
My grandmother was born on 5th of May, so inevitably the large family gathered on the dutch liberation day. One thing I remember from the stories of my aunts and uncles, that their narratives got better and better with the years. They inflated their own acts, scrapping coal slivers became stealing coal, misdirecting germans became a kind of hobby only after the war. Anyhow, in general, of civil servants and police only a handful refused to sign the ‘non-arian-declaration’, of the military only a few officers and soldiers refused to sign the declaration that said they would no longer take up arms against Germany. Of the whole of the population, only a very small sliver actually joined the resistance. Of that sliver the majority of people had at least communist sympathies. Most of those who called themselves resistance and didn’t have those similar sympathies only surfaced at the latter days of the war and after the war. However, the latter ones are and have been the face of the dutch resistance. Those that kept the true dutch heroes under the rug. Those that falsified their own history, as they did falsify the history of the Netherlands. That falsification of dutch history is cut in stone on the Weesperstraat in Amsterdam, where the “thankfulness monument” is located. That monument as a token from dutch people of jewish origin thanking their protectors. Although that may be true for some dutch people who protected others, most dutch people did absolutely nothing or the exact opposite. The percentage of jewish people deported and assassinated in the netherlands under german rule is the highest in the whole of former nazi occupied europe. Mr. Rauter said it himself at his trial, if dutch civil servants and police wouldn’t have collaborated so efficiently, he would never have been able to deport so many people. Yes, indeed, the narrative gets better and better. Today, May 4th 2021 would be good day to disclose all the veils the dutch government put over all issues that still linger until this very day. The question, are the dutch even capable of reconciliation?
I do think so. Thanks for taking the time to write your comment.
My grandmother was born and raised in Amsterdamn, she was Jewish as well. She was in her mid 20's during WW2. She told us there was alot of bombing, despair, destruction, barely any food to eat and her and her 9 siblings and parents had to hide :(
Thanks for sharing. Most have been a very hard time!
my great grandfather was with the Dutch resistance and than moved to canada :) so i am Canadian with Dutch roots. i think.
Thanks for sharing this.
My grandfather was twice rounded up for forced labour in Germany and twice he escaped off the train taking him there.
He was in luck! Better to escape than to work in these terrible conditions.
When my grandmother was little, she and her siblings were at the train station to pick up dropped pieces of coal for the furnace, but the germans saw them and started firing. Luckily they missed her and she could get away.
My goodness, that sure is a severe reaction. Luckily they missed!
Great video. Thank you for not forgetting the East Indies. Groeten uit Purwakarta.
You're welcome. I'm glad you appreciated the video!
In Canada the victory is not celebrated. There is Remembrance day where the loss and the sacrifice of wars is remembered. It is not a holiday. Prior to the day poppies are worn showing support and official ceremonies held along with a minute of silence across the country.
Thanks for sharing.
@@HistoryHustle Should note some provinces do have it as a holiday. My own feeling is it should not be, it is not a thing to be celebrated. This is consistent with our war memorial in France at Vimy. It has a statue called the broken sword which stands against militarism and support for the desire for peace. I am not a pacifist some wars must be fought.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts on this.
Well in Australia we don't really mention WW2 (I'm not Australian) and I find that kind of strange. They only talk about the Papua New Guinea campaign and other minor battles of the war.
Guess Gallipoli in WW1 is also talked about. So it focuses on Australian history. Thanks for sharing.
That's b/s. We learn about WW2 in school and it is talked about much more than the PNG heroes. We know a real lot about WW2 unless you're an uneducated, ignorant westie.
Canadian here - both sides of my family were liberated by Canadian soldiers - Friesland. Loved 'Soldier of Orange' with Rutger Hauer and the follow up 'The Blackbook.'
Cheers, Walter! Hope you liked Oorlogswinter and Bankier van Verzet also.
@@HistoryHustle Thanks ! Will look them up !
Well, how the second world war is remembered? Long story short: exactly as you said it because I'm Dutch.
Thanks for your comment, Giarno!
He is too
@@markstol2033 Aren't we all...
In Canada we have Remembrance Day on November 11th, the same day that Belgium observes Wapenstilstand 1918. From the end of WW2, Remembrance Day has slowly, but continually declined in importance in our society.
Thanks for sharing, Andrew!
I didn’t know mucb about it. Thank you for sharing the Dutch experiences from tbe war.
Thanks for watching. In case you're interested: here is more on the Dutch perspective on WW2:
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My great grandfather was in the KNIL when the Japanese captured him and sent him to Siam, modern day thailand and burma to construct the railroad. My grandpa and his mom and little brother got put in one of those "Jappenkamp" camps
I still have his KNIL kwartiermuts
Thanks for sharing. Did they all survive?
@@HistoryHustle Yes! But my grandpa never spoke about it in detail, he passed away in 2013, I was 16 and wasnt really into history that much yet so I never got to ask him. I have visited Japan in 2016, went to the Yasukuni shrine and the war museum next to it, they have a train there on display that used to ride on those same tracks
@@liam7903 Interesting. Must be really impressive for him.
Really interesting ☺️I’m German, now living in The Hague...
Thanks for your message, Andreas!
Riphagan was an excellent movie about Holland in WWII. Very emotional.
Agree.
Awesome videos. Can't wait to visit the NL again soon!
🇳🇱👍
My father and his parents were in the Netherlands during the war (his father was a police man who didn't survive because he was framed and taken to a concentration camp) and my mother and her parents were in the Dutch East Indies during the war (because her father was Hungarian he was exempted from labor, but she and her mother did stay in an internment camp), so my family has seen both sides.
My father still has some sort of grudge for the Germans (he was a teenager at the time), but my mother was just a toddler, so she doesn't remember much of it.
Thanks for sharing your family's story. Very unique!
Finally some good content about the Netherlands during ww2. I've been having a hard time finding good stuff
Welcome to the channel. I have a whole playlist for you, enjoy:
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@@HistoryHustle I spent so much time down the rabbit hole. Cheers from Canada
My Dad fought in Holland from the Shelt through the end of the war. He often talks about when they gave their compo rations and chocolates to the Dutch people , they behaved as though they had won the lottery. For him such a small thing but of seemingly hugely appreciated by the Dutch.
He said the kids couldn’t get enough chocolate and gum.
Thanks for your comment. Respect to your father.
Well done sir, your channel is a good historicall source . much love from saudia arabia
Many thanks!
a big "Salut" from french-canadian Vet. for sure it will be a pleasure to do it again!!! A special memory for the city of Zwolle and Léo Major!! R22R je me souviens!👊
Thank you for replying.
The way the war is expressed in the statues is also influenced by the time in which they were built. The cold war with the Netherlands and west-Germany being allies and Fascism being the biggest propaganda-enemy in the east.
Yes, that's happened.
In Suid Afrika was daar voorsiening gemaak deur die kerke vir die welsyn van Nederlandse Matrose tydens die Tweede Wêrel Oorlog
Interessant, dankie dat jy my daarvan laat weet het.
marius72za waarom kan Nederland niet gewoon Afrikaans praten het klinkt gewoon beter
@@lithiumvids9448 Die Afrikaanse taal is 'n suster van Nederlands, maar dit kom van 'n baie ouer weergawe van die Nederlandse taal, as wat nou gepraat word.
My grandmother was in the Netherlands. And my grandpa was in Indonesia.
And my mothers friend is the granddaughter of the resistance banker.
I think it’s a very overlooked part of the war in Europe. Oh and since I live in the uk, we remember the war as a last stand against evil.
Thanks for sharing.
@@HistoryHustle thanks for the video
For anyone interested, the houses on the background are built in the 17th century. Almost all of the Dutch inner cities were built in that century, and they're preserved to look as much as they did back in the day
Indeed, very nice!
Thanks for sharing, homeboy. Your videos are very good.
Nice to read. Thanks!
We need a better monument for the Dutch generation that survived WW2. Understandably, that (survival) was the highest aspiration of many. Don't forget the Netherlands was (is!) a very educated/developed country; Dutch civilians had seen newsreels of the devastation in Warsaw and elsewhere. It's reasonable to have thought resistance futile. But many did resist. A hero of mine is Corrie Ten Boom....and her family. When i was in high school, she visited and spoke at my Los Angeles church. She spoke of the power of God's love in the face of hatred and fear. Her autobiography is a great read!
Thanks for your comment.
My grandfather lived on a farm in the east of the Netherlands. He told my father that the economic crisis in the 30s was worse than ww2 in terms of daily life.
Really? Interesting. Why do you think that he experienced it like that?
@@HistoryHustle I smell a collarator!!!!
My grandma ho died ar the age of 86 she told that once a german soldier came by and asked if they had any jews in theire farm ofcourse they said no he was not satisfied and looked through but did not find anything but toke some eggs and payed for it
Once he left he said he will write if he survived the war. After the war no letter had arrived
The reason why the german had a familiar relation with the family was actually pretty scare now i know
Basically my grandma lived in a small crossroad with 2 farms and 2 houses
1 house had a family with that german soldier quarterd in basicallt living with the family
The other wich were the neigbors were resistance fighters and were realy cautios with theire actifity
The other farm had a man and wife part of the NSB ( a party working with the germans )
And then there was my grandma's family ho had a jewish familiy hiding with them
So you can emagine the constance tense and scary situation going on in that small crossroads
Thanks for sharing!
Canadians plant the 20, 000 tulip bulbs sent in "thanks" from the Dutch people.
Cool!
My grandparents are Dutch, grew up during Nazi occupation, and the mentality of "forget the war, put your head down and get to work rebuilding" perfectly describes their attitude. After the war, they emigrated to Canada (where I was born), and as I got older and became interested in WWII, I wanted to learn what it was like. They always brushed it off as "that was a long time ago and we don't want to focus on the past". Even my parents don't know much about the experiences of my grandparents because they just didn't really talk about it. 3 of my 4 grandparents have since passed and I feel like that part of my family history is lost. But I understand that they were teenagers duing the war and maybe it was just too traumatic to recall. Plus their strong Dutch Reformed protestant upbringing very much has that attitude of "God provides challenges and struggles sometimes, who are we to question God or complain about it, we don't focus on those challenges, we look ahead and work hard to praise God".
Thanks for your reply.
Here in the uk when i was a child (born 1954) people wore poppy and stood in silence deep in their thoughts most of war i came to understand of ww2 was direct account from adults and later older work colleagues just about everyone had been in forces it was recollevted with humous stories i now know perhaps hide thr pain of the memories it brought back.
Therr was a general feeling
Of done the right thing all in the same boat etc..
It is only now as that generation passes on do we fully understand in the UK what a tough resourceful home loving generation they were and huge effort they putbinto Britain with Welfare State NHS to ensure that us their childten would have a better start in life with Healthcare Innoculations Education for all homes for
all with slum clearance
etc.
All i can say is God Bless em..
Thanks for your comment, Chris.
This sudden attack of our Big Brothers from the East was like a knife stab in the back for most Dutch People I guess. Most Dutch people always have seen our German neighbours as allies and good neighbours for hundreds of years and the British and the Fench as our true enemies. Do not forget that we fought 2 wars against the British and almost went to war against the British again to defend our Dutch brethren in South Africa in the Boeren oorlog. We were also occupied by the French during the Napoleonic wars. I understand why it almost took more than 50 years for most Dutch people to forgive Germany and its people for this betrayal.
Forgive, not forget I'd say.
Great video! Btw foreign viewers; our country is called the Netherlands, not holland. Holland is a part of the Netherlands but not everyone lives there ;) thank you in advance
True!
The German attack on Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg was completely outrageous.Three small countries that had no quarrel with Germany was suddenly the victim of a brutal invasion and subsequent occupation. After World War II ended the victorious powers took from Germany and gave Poland East Prussia and Silesia and the people living there were told to pack up and get out. It would have been just and fair to do the same to the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg by giving them large pieces of Germany and to tell the inhabitants there to beat it.
There were plans. These were rejected.
@@HistoryHustle BIG MISTAKE
Please explain.
@@HistoryHustle After what Germany did to Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg, they should have paid back to them for the crimes done
I see.
I saw some video, of a girl, that animates “countryhumans” those are like country’s made as humans, and she made a video about the Netherlands kissing Nazi, I was so mad about it! The Nazi killed so many people...I bet she doesn’t even know the history....
Kinda weird...
-History Hustle- yeah, I know right?
The common rule of neutrality : Being more armed and ready Vs everyone in the world.
I see.
@@HistoryHustle if I remember, during the cold war, Switzerland shot down USSR and U.S jet fighter planes when they invaded Swiss airspace. And the swiis have or had a bunch of nuclear bunkers around the country.
Also 2nd rule of neutrality: Assume everyone is out to get you, even the people you done and gone shake hands with.
In certain times that sure was the thing..
@@KGDHMF If you remember? Any links for that. I know the US gave compensation for mistakenly hitting the wrong place on the Swiss side of the line.
Hey! I'm in the Netherlands from Australia and checking out your videos for some helpful context. Thank you so much, you're a great teacher. Utrecht is pretty close by - anything in a particular we should see there?
Hey Alex, nice to read you are interested in checking out Utrecht. It is a lovely city which you can easily see in one day because the historic city centre is failry small and walkable. Look for the walking routes that are available at Utrecht central station. Walk along side tha canals (Oude Gracht and Nieuwe Gracht) and enjoy a coffee or thee in one of the many cute coffee places we have. I believe the Dom Tower is under construction. On Dom Square there is something called "Dom Under" and there Roman relics can be viewed!
@@HistoryHustle hey! I've been meaning to reply. Thank you for your recommendation. We visited Edam and then Utrecht which was great. Dom Tower was covered scaffolding but we went to DomUnder which was very interesting. And the canals were lovely. Thanks again!
@@AlexJ1 I just read your message. Thanks and great to hear you liked it!
My father and his two brothers were in the Dutch resistance in Breda.
My father worked for the Zuivelbond, in a reserved occupation. Among other things he sabotaged railway lines. One night he and his colleague came across a Nazi patrol on the railway and ran off. My father was faster than his colleague. He heard a single gunshot. For the rest of his life dad was haunted by not having waited to help his colleague. Dad also sabotaged aircraft at Gilze-Rijen aerodrome, and reported on the disposition of Nazi aircraft - which was one the the great successes of the Dutch resistance.
Thanks for sharing this!
Mijn grootouders en ouders leefden al toen WO2 uitbrak, en heel uniek, grootvader aan vaderszijde was een collaborateur, en grootvader aan moederskant zat met onderduikers. Verder wederom een goeie video, en hou die kleine nuances erin, die maken jouw video's speciaal.
Erg bedankt voor je bericht! Heb je deze video ook al gezien over NL tijdens WO2?
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Very profound video. I am always struck by the courage of the resistance in the face of the Wehrmacht. I doubt if I could summon the fortitude in the face of such odds. Dank U Well
Bedankt!
The invasion of Benelux region in a VERY VERY simplified way
Germany: me spoopy **kills luxemberg**
Netherlands and Belgium: uh oh
Germany: hey Netherlands me bomb you if no comply
Netherlands: oh ok
Allies and Belgium: oh come on
Germany: **kills France**
Britain and Belgium: oh no
Germany: me overrun you people if no comply
Britain: no.... Don't do it.....
Belgium: I have no choice **surrenders**
Right.
Like a piece of "En Attendant Godot"!
I'm an American currently living in Dordrecht but have visited Rotterdam and Amsterdam a few times. I wanted to know more about the history here, thanks for the Dutch perspective.
You're welcome! Dordrecht is a beautiful city, believed what Rotterdam used to look like. Have you seen the recent video?
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@@HistoryHustle Thanks, I'll check it out ☺️
There was also a very "nice" aspect of the Dutch NAD creating pure Germanic colonies in Eastern Poland (they wanted Ukraine/Belarus/Lithuania belt, but by 1943 the Soviet Army was already making quick advances, approaching these areas and the Dutch companies had to wait another 70-odd years to have a go at the Ukrainian fertile soil). Never forget who is who in Europe. I just hope the list of Nazi collaborators in the Netherlands gets declassified next year.
As a fun fact off topic - the Dutch fought 4 days for their country and 4 years for their Indonesian colony.
My family moved to Canada after the war, they were from Friesland and Danmark
Thanks for sharing this.
The last winter of the war was bitterly cold and miserable due to no food or fuel. The story is well told in historical fiction in Hunger Winter: A WWII Novel.
Interesting, thanks for sharing, Bruce!
I have been eating up your videos.I moved to Delft from Canada and want to learn more about the history of the area. My family is from the Rotterdam area and I am just learning about them as well. I will continue watching.
Thanks! Glad you enjoy.
Hi German here, I really hate that the Nazis invaded the Netherlands, after all the Netherlands were neutral and they granted the Kaiser exile. Basically as far as I understand the German states and later the Reich had always decent relationships, but well Hitler was a Madman.
I'm just happy that Netherlands and Germany have decent relationships again (besides some football banter :p). I sometimes work in the Netherlands, since I deliver furniture in Germany and also to the Netherlands and I had never bad experiences with the Dutch.
I was always able to communicate either in English or German. Pretty nice country the Netherlands!
Thanks for your reply, Björn!
Gozer ik ben zo blij dat ik dit kanaal gevonden heb.. 👍👍 goed bezig.
Dank voor je bericht. Welkom op het kanaal!
My grandfather told me a story of a family kin who was Dutch but had a German name and he was shot dead in combat, but probably not because of the Germans.
Sad to hear.
History Hustle I never knew him but I just tried to tell you that the Dutch were very suspicious of the Germans. They didn’t even have good evidence he wasn’t a spy.
I used to spend a lot of time in Rotterdam, during 1980s, I will never forget two Germans not realizing they were never going to be served at a restaurant
Really? Guess things are different now.
My great grandfather liberated Holland with the Canadian forces
Respect, thanks for sharing. What can you tell us about his experiences?
Interesting. Was there any Dutch army revival in 1944. Given that the Germans stubbornly held on in pockets did they need to be driven out? Is there friendliness towards Britain because of this?
Still have to research that. More on the Dutch Army of 1940 in case you're interested:
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@@HistoryHustle I understand that Canadians fought hard and with heavy losses as US and British troops were diverted to the Arnhem campaign. Securing Antwerp was the priority especially after the Winter German counter-attack. The people of Holland, starving, had to wait much longer than the Belgians for liberation, although when it came it was very sweet. Dutch resistance very brave.
Apologies if this addressed in other comments, I have not read them all. When reading Geert Mak's history of Amsterdam, I was surprised to hear that only 7 SS officers managed the city, its occupation, a siege on the Jewish quarter, and the exportation of 1000s maybe 10s of 1000s of Jews out of the city. He made the case that collaboration was passive, if not active. It was not at all a glowing view of the Dutch role in the war. Yet, he writes, everyone seemed to think they were resistance after the war. Maybe that is the result of the Hunger Winter, and the polarity such an event evokes. Your thoughts?
Could be yes, I still have to do my research on this topic! I'm checking out Geert Mak for sure!
My friend is Austrian Jewish Dutch Both are working or present at the same camp At the Camp in somewhere in Netherlands
Thanks for sharing.
When the Germans were here. My grandfather apparently was put in a line of 25 people. He was number 21. They shot the first 20. He was super lucky.
That is insane. How did your grandfather reflect on this situation?
@@HistoryHustle no clue sadly, he passed away shortly after holding me when I was born. My father told me the story few years ago. He was very closed on his own health or mental state.
I understand.
Im from indonesia..., our history about WWII is...., our hero have been killed by netherland
Who?
Volgens mij heb je net iets te lang op de nagel van je wijsvinger zitten knagen.
Evengoed, bedankt voor je informatieve kanaal!
Tja, 't waren zenuwslopende momenten daar. Bedankt voor het kijken.
My grandfather was Dutch and moved in fairport ny I never got to meet him.
Thanks for sharing.
Dutch prisoners of war in Japanese internment camps (such as on the River Kwai) were treated exactly the same as the more numerous British and Australian POWs in the same camps (captured in Singapore & then-British Malaya). Arguably, in places like Borneo, Samarkand, or New Guinea, the Australians were treated even worse, such as in the death marches. To the Japanese they were all just indistinguishable white colonial resistors, and they were liberating SEAsia from centuries of colonialism.
What differs is that, after the war neither in Britain or the USA (which lost The Philippines), and certainly not in Australia, were these ex-prisoners & survivors, who suffered unspeakable cruelty, viewed through the weird "blame the victim" / "we deserved it" mentality perspective that has been aired around the Netherlands often since then.
The SOE efforts in the Netherlands were largely a disaster, with the resistance ring being blown , and more agents sent in by London immediately captured by the Nazi Abwher. The Englandspiel sent many agents and local resistance to their deaths. The liberation of the Netherlands was achieved very slowly (with the failure of Operation Market Garden at Arnhem) and with British, Canadian, Polish & commonwealth troops & of course Americans , not Dutch troops liberating the country. Unlike France ( with some Divisions of Free French soldiers) and all areas of the Soviet Union , that were liberated by the men and women of the Red Army and Partisans. The Dutch population were largely oberservers , watching the planes of The RAF Bomber Command & USAAF fly overhead on their way to Nazi Germany , and the Hunger Winter , with the Germans hanging on to some parts of the Netherlands
Thanks for sharing your insights on this topic.
Holy I missed one!
And holy crap what a beautiful statue!!
Nice to see an old video!!
Great you're watching the 'old' ones. There are also 'very old' ones. Enjoy! :)
Ya that's a great piece CBC Canada does on the liberation of Appledore
Ok.
Prachtige videos! Abboneetje er bij, heel intressant hoe uitgebreid je het doet ook keep up the good work
Bedankt, welkom bij de club Geert!
Why was Rotterdam destroyed rather than Amsterdam??
I have often wondered
Good question. I think this was more practical, because the German attackers were pinned down at Rotterdam, which the German main attack had to go through. If you want to know more on this topic, you might find this video interesting:
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Perhaps you have checked it out, I just released a video on this topic, Dave:
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Interesting video. But sadly you are wrong about the statue. It does not resemble "the avarage dutch person". It commemorates the fallen members of the resistance and its female participation. The statue carries the flame of life and is made by Corinne Franzén-Heslenfeld.
thanks for the correction
My family has a Jewish background. So when my great grandfather's son got deported to a concentration camp, he killed a German soldier, took his uniform, and infiltrated the train his son was in and saved him. They had to jump from a moving train. He also blew up a population registration building. Some real James Bond stuff!
I can imagine.
Rightt totally happened
My grand mother from my grand mother lived from 1895 to 2000 so she live in both world wars and survived bit i never knew her so i dont know how she lived in both world wars btw i am dutch.
Thanks for sharing.
my tante jo was from utrect! i stayed in her attic, god those narrow steep stairs like climbing a ladder
Thanks for sharing.
Background music much too loud and detracted from the commentary.
I understand.
The average Dutch person was apathetic. To be fair the country is the size of a postage stamp. Other than organizing mass and pointless attacks they simply accepted to occupation.
Most tried to adapt yes.
History Hustle Wow thank you for the reply. It seems to me the two thousand plus soldiers lost to resist a juggernaut is respectable. The conflict comes from those who joined the Germans to fight the Russians. Damned if you do, damned if you don’t. I enjoy the way you present the subject. Much energy!
The people of the Netherlands are still very grateful for the sacrifices made by Americans, British, Canadian and Polish troops who all fought for their freedom. The story of the war, the invasion, the occupation, the liberation and the reconstruction, have been passed down from generation to generation. At one anniversary parade, I remember one father telling his six year old daughter that these were REAL heroes as a car carrying a 90 year old American veteran passed by.
Here is a video I posted showing the most recent anniversary celebration in the city of Maastricht in 2019. You can't believe the masses of people who turned out to again thank "their liberators" for the sacrifices that they made. th-cam.com/video/onjb5pMv4iU/w-d-xo.html
Thanks for sharing. If you want my take on the liberation, click here:
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