Nearly half a million names suspected of collaborating with the Nazis during the occupation of the Netherlands have been made publicly available online for the first time, 80 years after the Holocaust ended. The archive, digitized with government funding, contains millions of pages of information about victims, resistance, and collaboration.
The names of some 425,000 suspected Dutch collaborators went online 80 years after the Holocaust ended, making them accessible to historians and descendants as the country grapples with its past.The names of nearly half a million people suspected of collaborating with the Nazis during their occupation of the Netherlands have been published online for the first time, 80 years after the end of the Holocaust .in the Netherlands .
The institute says the archive contains important stories for present and future generations,"from children who want to know what their father did in the war, to historians researching the grey areas of collaboration." Most of the people on the list are no longer alive, meaning they are not covered by the European Union's strict data protections. Even so, the publication of their names could have ramifications for their descendants.
The story of Dutch collaboration is not entirely unknown — one of the most famous Holocaust victims, Anne Frank, was betrayed by someone in her native Netherlands (her betrayer's identity hasBut Simon believes the archive will shed more light on the extent and variety of ways in which people collaborated, which will help historians and the country come to terms with its past.
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