Netherlands releases list of 425,000 suspected Nazi collaborators online

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That is a hell of a lot of people though I can't say I support such an approach. After all, someone is innocent until proven otherwise, even the lowest of the low.

Regardless, I've said before that Canada would be ripe for helping the enemy because too many here have sold their character and integrity for any personal benefit they can achieve, especially through a job. It's disgusting.

Russia and China will be targeting Canadians heavily over the next few years I'm sure.


Rinke Smedinga has known for decades that his father was a Nazi collaborator. Now, thanks to a new online archive, that information is available to anyone with an internet connection.

On Jan. 2, researchers in the Netherlands published the names of about 425,000 people who were investigated on suspicion of collaborating with German occupiers during the Second World War, as part of a project called War In Court.

One of those names is the late Piet Smedinga, Rinke Smedinga's father, and member of the National Socialist Movement, a.k.a. the Dutch Nazi party.
 
That is a hell of a lot of people though I can't say I support such an approach. After all, someone is innocent until proven otherwise, even the lowest of the low.

Regardless, I've said before that Canada would be ripe for helping the enemy because too many here have sold their character and integrity for any personal benefit they can achieve, especially through a job. It's disgusting.

Russia and China will be targeting Canadians heavily over the next few years I'm sure.


Rinke Smedinga has known for decades that his father was a Nazi collaborator. Now, thanks to a new online archive, that information is available to anyone with an internet connection.

On Jan. 2, researchers in the Netherlands published the names of about 425,000 people who were investigated on suspicion of collaborating with German occupiers during the Second World War, as part of a project called War In Court.

One of those names is the late Piet Smedinga, Rinke Smedinga's father, and member of the National Socialist Movement, a.k.a. the Dutch Nazi party.
Seems a strange thing to do most are dead now like WW2 vets, about 25 thousand Dutchmen served in the Waffen SS, most Dutch were loyal to the queen and were not Nazis, a very close friend of mine a former Dutch army officer passed away just before Christmas, his late father was also a young army Officer as war broke out he was captued by the Germans when they invaded the Netherlands he was told if he signed a document agreeing not to take up arms against the occupation he would be released to go home to his family, he refused and was transported to a POW camp in Poland he was liberated by the Russians as he was a Russian French English speaker and fluent in German he worked for a time with the Russians as they moved west, his job was to interrogate captured Germans for intelligence, i met him a few times very interesting man, this was the camp he was in.
 
That is a hell of a lot of people though I can't say I support such an approach. After all, someone is innocent until proven otherwise, even the lowest of the low.

Regardless, I've said before that Canada would be ripe for helping the enemy because too many here have sold their character and integrity for any personal benefit they can achieve, especially through a job. It's disgusting.

Russia and China will be targeting Canadians heavily over the next few years I'm sure.


Rinke Smedinga has known for decades that his father was a Nazi collaborator. Now, thanks to a new online archive, that information is available to anyone with an internet connection.

On Jan. 2, researchers in the Netherlands published the names of about 425,000 people who were investigated on suspicion of collaborating with German occupiers during the Second World War, as part of a project called War In Court.

One of those names is the late Piet Smedinga, Rinke Smedinga's father, and member of the National Socialist Movement, a.k.a. the Dutch Nazi party.
While I think the information should be available to historians and other interested persons, I don't see any point to shaming their families, almost certainly most or all of whom are NOT Nazi collaborators by making the list public.

In times past it would just be an interesting bit of history. But in the current woke climate/cancel culture of which Europe is not immune, bad actors will likely attach those people to sociopolitical enemies living now. For instance, you know and I know if one or more of those old Nazi collaborators is related to President Trump it becomes front page news and results in at least a dozen threads here at USMB.
 
in 1941 the Dutch Nazi party had about 75 thousand members led by a Dutch collaborator called Anton Mussert, but if you look at all European Countries that were Nazi occupied they all had such people who were Nazi collaborators, one of the worst was Leon Dagrelle in Belgium and his Rexist party, make no mistake if Hitler had overcome Britain we would have had our share of collaborators probably led by Oswald Mosley and the British Union of Fascists.
 
Nazi collaborators had to be 20 years old at least during the years of 1938 to 1945. They would be in their 90's today if they were still alive. Is the intent to embarrass and possibly extort their families?
 
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