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I have changed "preamble" to "prelude" because the former only refers to documents and texts (e.g. the introduction to a constitution), and not to events. -- Garethhamilton 22:20, 7 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Sander1234 changed The poverty caused by the Great Depression helped the rise of Nazism in the Netherlands, saying that it didn't help the rise of nazism, adding that they got few votes. But that doesn't mean it didn't rise. That's determined by how much nazism there was before, and as far as I know nazism (at least under that name) didn't even exist earlier. So I changed that back, but left the addition. DirkvdM 06:49, 3 October 2005 (UTC) Somewhere it says almost no dutch fought on the side of teh germans. Thats a ridiculous falsification.. the ditch provided teh biggest group of non german combatants in the german army. Not many survivded though. Also teh statement most dutch formed one front against the germans is false. 95% of (military) police and civil authorities have collaborated with teh germans. Often handing lists of jews eg. Notwithstanding all this, resistance against fascism has also been strong and involved most of the rest of the population, esp. the lower classes. Gl with this correction that offcial dutch history won't like. -- 81.191.62.33 ( talk) 23:31, 11 January 2008 (UTC)
Currently the article has four illustrations: one of a ruined Rotterdam, one of a statue of/for Anne Frank, and two related to collaboration with the occupying force. Somehow this seems totally out of whack for this article? 81.191.62.33 ( talk) 23:31, 11 January 2008 (UTC)
According to my history books, Jews that flew Nazi Germany to the Netherlands, were taken into internment camps. Which were happily taken in by the occupying Nazis. The text states rather unnoticed: "an existing internment camp for immigrants". Which brings me to something else. Where I live, we believe the Dutch were somewhat 'less active' in the resistance movements, at least much less then this article and the dutch resistance article mentions. But since it's a perception, it may violate the NPOV, so I'm not editing or something.
Please clarify 'Nazi Germany's occupation of the Rhineland' in the Interbellum section. The Rheinland was, is and always has been a Land or province in Germany on its border with France, i.e., in Germany, part of Germany, Nazi-era or otherwise. One doesn't 'occupy' one's own country. The Treaty of Versailles had a French-inspired portion that said Germany could not station troops along the border, which Germany then did, but that's not an 'occupation.' Last section on reprisals--Anne Frank and her family were in fact Germans, from Frankfurt am Main, the father having moved his business from Germany to Amsterdam. Interesting to wonder if they then would have been deported by the Dutch post-war. 72.81.16.200 00:09, 1 January 2007 (UTC)
I've tidied up the misleading comments on the Rhineland. Norvo 17:04, 31 March 2007 (UTC)
"A German airborne landing at The Hague, intended to capture the Dutch royal family and the government failed and the troops that had not been killed were captured and shipped to Britain " —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 69.149.78.217 ( talk) 06:38, 23 January 2007 (UTC).
The German airborne and airlanding troops were not defeated by the Dutch.
The Dutch managed to retake the three seized AFB's and denied the Germans access to prime target the Hague. Save the aforesaid successes the Germans were able to maintain isolated pockets of resistance that the Dutch failed to clean up. Of the captured Germans around the Hague and Rotterdam, as well as about 250 elsewhere in the country (mainly downed Luftwaffe crews), a mere 1,300 were eventually expedited to the UK. A bigger lot was liberated by their comrades after the Dutch armistice. Grebbegoos ( talk) 23:27, 22 April 2009 (UTC)
I've revised some portions of this article (which appeared to have been written by non-native English speakers), but I'm confused about some of these figures. Here is a current portion from the article:
Some towns, such as Scheveningen, were evacuated because of this. In the Hague, 3,200 houses were demolished and 2,594 were dismantled. 20,000 houses were cleared, and 65,000 people were forced to move.
Is there some kind of distinction between a "demolished" house and a "dismantled" one, or are these two difference sources? In other words, were there 5,794 homes taken down in The Hague, or just 3,200 (or 2,594)?
Also, is the latter figure (20,000) for the Netherlands as a whole? Thanks for anyone who can help. Funnyhat 21:30, 7 February 2007 (UTC)
Someone vandalised the article.
The Dutch Lieutenant-General Hendrik A. Seyffardt was called a low-level collaborator. Aoccording to the English Wikipedia he was a former head of the Dutch General Staff and headed the recruiting campaign for the Dutch elements of the Waffen-SS. This also explains the bloody repression that answers his killing. Calling such a person low-level is somewhat unfortunate. I changed the text and added some more context information. Let's hope the rest of the article is better researched.
-- Ft93110 ( talk) 15:46, 14 April 2009 (UTC)
I tidied up the statements about the Rhineland and also about hyperinflation in Germany. The German Mark had been stablilized in 1923-24. The severe depression of the early 1930s in Germany led to falling prices (as one would expect), not inflation. Norvo 17:08, 31 March 2007 (UTC)
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Grebbegoos ( talk) 23:14, 22 April 2009 (UTC) I was little surprised to recognize the following nonsense once again in this lemma: "The German forces faced little resistance at first, but their advance was eventually slowed by the Dutch army, which was mostly fighting with weaponry made before 1900" I deleted the last bit of this sentence.
This is pure fiction, well preserved by some badly informed yet well read Dutch historians like Brongers.
The Dutch rifle was a 1895 Mannlicher design weapon, which did excellent service in 1940. The German Mauser was a 1898 design, so was the Belgian Mauser, the French Fusil was a 19th century design and the British Lee Enfield [1895].
The Dutch MG's were 20th century weapons. The mortar was the Brandt Stokes licence, 8.1 cm. AT guns were highly modern, only the few light infantry guns were late 19th century. AAA was 90% modern or even state of the art.
The bulk of the Dutch artillery was 20th century, the main 7,5 cm dramatically modified in the late twenties. The 10,5 cm guns were 1926 make, all howitzers 1918 or 1920 with exception of a few Bofors 12 cm guns from 1908. In total 170 of the artillery pieces in third line defences were indeed 1880 weapons. But all belligerents had their own score of outdated, sometimes obsolete guns.
Please stop the hoax story that the Dutch army was fighting its war as an archaic fraction. That nonsense has clearly been rubbished by scientifically sound publications issued in the last two decades. The Dutch did have a small army and lacked any tanks. That would have been a fair statement.
I also changed the victim quotes. The Dutch did not lose 3,500 KIA (but 2,300) and not 6,000 WIA (but over 7,000). Besides the Germans lost 2,200 (not 2,500) KIA and around 7,000 WIA (not 6,000). There were only a mere 1,300 German POW's expedited to the UK (not 2,000).
Furthermore I added the fact that the Dutch laid down arms at 14 May 1900 hrs.
I added Rotterdam as one of the (now) four main points of resistance and I deleted the hoax that Germany expected the Dutch to yield in one day. That well preserved hoax was only applicable if the operation to capture Royal Family and Army HQ had succeeded. The OKH had calculated a battle of four days. Three to reach Moerdijk and another to decisively penetrate Fortress Holland. Their estimates proved remarkably just. Please read the accurate and true story of the invasion in Holland on http://www.waroverholland.nl Grebbegoos ( talk) 23:14, 22 April 2009 (UTC)
when did ana frank died? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.215.243.60 ( talk) 00:39, 28 May 2009 (UTC)
This article should state that immediately after the Dutch surrender the German troops behaved surprisingly disciplined and did not harass/steal from/plunder/rape the Dutch population. Things grew gradually worse for the Dutch population, but that is another matter. Andries ( talk) 08:34, 20 September 2009 (UTC)
everybody always complains about Nazi's penchant for mass genocide, but nobody compliments them for how disciplined they were while murdering millions of innocent people. 86.7.240.104 ( talk) 18:03, 8 May 2020 (UTC)
Hi. When I type Fortress Holland for searching, Wikipedia redirects me to History of the Netherlands (1939–1945) (this article). Does it mean that Fortress Holland is used about the whole country or it is a place anywhere in Netherlands? -- Djuneyt tr ( talk) 16:40, 26 November 2009 (UTC)
The figure states more then 200.000. What is this comprised of? Does that include Jews deported to concentration camps? What about Dutch people killed in Allied bombing raids? -- 41.151.69.14 ( talk) 19:56, 6 May 2012 (UTC)
I'm considering starting a new article on History of Wageningen (1939-1945), focused on that city's experience and history of WWII. If you have comments, ideas or suggestions for such an article, please make not of them under the appropriate section of Talk:Wageningen. Thanks, DA Sonnenfeld ( talk) 18:42, 22 May 2012 (UTC)
Should include references to numerous stories (especially former Dutch SS) who were used as "counterterrorism" experts in the anticolonial war in the Dutch East Indies in the late 1940s (also many fought in the Korean War, as part of a deal to regain Dutch citizenship). Historian932 ( talk) 05:26, 21 January 2015 (UTC)
The result of the move request was: move to Netherlands in World War II. Indeed, The Netherlands in World War II is out of touch with WP:THE and other articles that start with "Netherlands in". -- tariqabjotu 03:21, 23 June 2013 (UTC)
History of the Netherlands (1939–1945) →
The Netherlands in World War II – "Country x in war y" is a well-established form on Wikipedia and seems more logical, given that 1939 is an arbitrary date in the Netherlands' case anyway. Given the scope of the article, it would not need to be altered and would give more flexibility in the scope to include the Dutch background to the conflict. As I understand it, these "History of X (1939-45)" articles were created on the understanding that they would form part of several articles (i.e.
History of Poland (1918–39)) on the history of a country, which is not true of the Netherlands where it is just confusing.
Brigade Piron (
talk)
08:39, 1 June 2013 (UTC)
According to historian Loe de Jong, there were staff conversation with the Allies. https://archive.org/details/LoeDeJongHetKoninkrijkDerNederlandenInDeTweedeWereldoorlogDeel02Neutraal ; Britain took a strange interest as well: https://archive.org/details/PreparationForBritishInterventionInHollandANDBelgium - I think there is far more in the archives. -- 154.69.55.10 ( talk) 08:18, 25 March 2015 (UTC)
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