US EditionNetherlands Publishes Names of 425,000 WWII Nazi Collaborators
- The Netherlands has published the names of around 425,000 people suspected of collaborating with the Nazis during World War II for the first time.
- More than 150,000 of those named faced some form of punishment according to the online database.
- The project, called 'War in Court,' has digitized about a quarter of the archive so far.
- Collaboration contributed to the murder of an estimated three quarters of Dutch Jews, including Anne Frank and her family.
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Netherlands Names 425,000 Suspected Nazi Collaborators, Ignites Privacy Vs Transparency Debate
The names of 425,000 individuals suspected of collaborating with Nazi Germany have been published online in the Netherlands for the first time under a project called "War in Court", according to a BBC report. The names were released after the expiry of a law on New Year's Day that restricted public access to the archive, marking a new era of transparency regarding the nation's wartime past. The Huygens Institute helped digitise the archive which…
The file consists of 32 million pages and consists of the names of all those investigated, including people who would prove innocent. Only the names are available online.
Possible Nazi collaborators during the German occupation of the Netherlands have been exposed online
The archives of the Dutch National Archives have been digitized, which the director of the archives says can help in processing social trauma.
Dutch archive releases names of 425,000 suspected Nazi collaborators
More than 75% of Dutch Jews perished in the Holocaust. By JNS “War in Court,” a Dutch project, released nearly half a million names of suspected wartime Nazi collaborators on Thursday after a law restricting public access to the archive expired on New Year’s Day. The 32-million-page archive covers 425,000 mostly Dutch people investigated for collaboration with occupying German forces during World War II, Reuters reported. Only one-fifth of those…
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