Wilders: Dutch Government Should Apologize for Nazi Collaboration in WWII deportation of Jews

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Good on Geert Wilders for calling out his country's Jew-hatred during World War II. It bears repeating that Dutch collaboration with the Nazis led to the extermination of over 95% of Dutch Jews during the Holocaust. In 1941, there were 154,887 Jews in Holland. In 1947 there were 14,346 (*Census).

Where is the circumspection? This is Wilders' point, no doubt. The Holocaust, while it was a German initiative, was carried out by every nation in Europe, save for the Danes. Denmark saved its Jews.

There were Dutch Nazis, Polish Nazis — Europe as a continent decided it was a good idea to get rid of the Jews. Holland had the highest rate of collaboration with the Nazis, higher than any other country in Western Europe. 95% of Dutch Jews were murdered.

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The lesson that Holland and Europe should have taken away from the Holocaust was that they were evil and they have to be good. And that is the lesson they had to learn. But they didn't.  They have to be able and willing to make moral distinctions and stand up for the good and fight evil and that is something the Europeans refuse to do.

Germany, Holland et al decided to embrace madness and evil as their central unifying characteristic under the Nazis. That was what the problem was.

Subsequently they took all the wrong lessons from World War II and are applying them (i.e. nationalism is bad therefore EU transnational gobbledygook is good), while ignoring the only lesson that's really relevant from their defeat in WWII, which is that you have to choose good and defend good and fight with the intention of defeating evil. 

This is important at such a time where we are witnessing a return to that deadly pattern, as Holland and most of Europe passively submit to the evils of Islamic imperialism and anti-semitism in much the same way.

The answer is not to fetishize six million dead Jews but to stand against the current annihilationist ideology and support Israel.

Wilders: Dutch government should apologize for ‘passive’ attitude to WWII deportation of Jews
By Associated Press, Wednesday, January 4, 12:31 PM

THE HAGUE, Netherlands — Dutch lawmaker Geert Wilders is calling on the government to apologize for the country’s “passive” response to the mass deportations of Jews by Nazi occupiers during World War II.
The move is likely to re-ignite debate about Dutch attitudes to the wartime persecution of the country’s Jewish population.
Wilders wrote to Prime Minister Mark Rutte Wednesday asking if he would apologize based on comments by two former government ministers in a recently published book about postwar reparations to Jews.
One of the former ministers, Els Borst, says in the book “Judging the Netherlands” that she believes the response by the Dutch wartime government in exile would have been tougher had Nazis been deporting Catholics or Protestants.

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ebonystone
ebonystone
12 years ago

“The Holocaust, while it was a German initiative, was carried out by every nation in Europe, save for the Danes. Denmark saved its Jews.”
Every nation? Not quite. Even limiting the discussion to continental countries, neutral Sweden, Switzerland, Spain, and Portugal did not take part. It was Sweden that took in the Danish Jews. And Franco’s Spain took in even more Jewish refugees. Spain was the safest place in Europe for the Jews during the war. Also, Italy and Hungary, despite being fascist states and allies of Germany, protected their Jews as long as their national governments were in charge. Only near the end of the war, when the Nazis overthrew the national governments and took direct control, did the Holocaust reach Italian and Hungarian Jews.

Richard
Richard
12 years ago

Swiss neutrality during WWII is a popular myth. Swiss banks protected Nazi gold, including the dental gold that was pulled from the teeth of Jews before they were slaughtered. The Swiss also allowed the trains pulling cattle cars full of Jews deported from Vichey France to cross Switzerland on their way to Germany and Poland. It was done in the middle of the night and off the books to keep the lie of neutrality alive, but their were numerous witnesses. And per your argument, keep mindful that the government of Switzerland was never overthrown by the Nazis; they were willing collaborators.

InfidelForLife
InfidelForLife
12 years ago

Pamela, as a Dutch citizen I can assure you that the situation is even worse. The Dutch have not only not learned anything, they are as antisemitic as ever. That’s quite in vogue again these days, especially in Holland in “progressive” circles. If one reads the commentaries of these pseudo-intellectuals in the newspapers reporting on Geert’s initiative – well it simply makes the hair in the back of your neck stand up. Rabid antisemitism, there’s no other word for it. All the while, of course, accusing Geert of “fascism” and xenophobia, et cetera.
By now, also thanks to a largely destroyed educational system 80-90% of the Dutch have completely fallen for the Fakestinian propaganda and are almost hysterical anti-Israel, without even knowing the basic historical facts. They all repeat each other, the same lies, the unfounded allegations, the same simplistic pseudo-logic and half-truths. You hear and read about it everywhere.
I’m Dutch, but most of my countrymen and their apocalyptic stupidity disgust me.

Stefanie
Stefanie
12 years ago

I believe Bulgaria also saved her Jews.

Nyk
Nyk
12 years ago

A sad fact is that the Nazi regime would have been much better for non-Jews and non-Slavs compared to the more brutal and anti-intellectual Communist regimes that followed, with America’s approval. America sold out half of Europe.
America should apologize for leaving Eastern Europe into the hands of these Soviet monsters, for whose crimes we will never get a real number of victims, but which is comparable to that of the Jews killed during the Holocaust.

Tom Billesley
Tom Billesley
12 years ago

In the words of one who did what he could, Jan Karski:

It was easy for the Nazis to kill Jews, because they did it. The allies considered it impossible and too costly to rescue the Jews, because they didn’t do it. The Jews were abandoned by all governments, church hierarchies and societies, but thousands of Jews survived because thousands of individuals in Poland, France, Belgium, Denmark, Holland helped to save Jews. Now, every government and church says, “We tried to help the Jews”, because they are ashamed, they want to keep their reputations. They didn’t help, because six million Jews perished, but those in the government, in the churches they survived. No one did enough.

Tom Billesley
Tom Billesley
12 years ago

It’s important that we stand with Israel, not because of Holocaust guilt, but because it’s the right thing to do.

PB-in-AL
PB-in-AL
12 years ago

The splitting of hairs of which country did more or less with the nazis is moot; it’s history. Pamela’s point, is that the lesson was not learned that should have been:
“…you have to choose good and defend good and fight with the intention of defeating evil.”
Thus, what is going on today is an extension of that lesson, not learned. The ideas of right and wrong, good and evil have been completely subverted by “post-modernists” who spout moral equivalencies to support whatever wind is blowing that day. I also appreciate her disclaimer about “not fetishizing” the murdered Jews; they were a sign that there was a WHOLE LOT of evil going on.
For whatever sociological reason, it appears that the general public attitude towards the Jewish people is the canary in the mine for how much that evil is starting to become the predominant thought. The Martin Niemöller quote: “first they came for …” comes to mind here. When it is determined that human rights no longer apply to certain humans, then the alarms should be going off.
To forestall any straw-man or moral equivalencies that cast Pamela, Robert, myself, etc. as “islamophobes”, let’s bear in mind the old saw going around that it is only a -phobia if the fear is “unfounded”. A short perusal of this site, Jihadwatch, heck, FoxNews or CNN, will illustrate that such a concern is not unfounded. I would be willing to buy into the concept of “moderate, peaceful muslims” if I saw more than one every 8 to 12 months, and that person not under a death fatwa! I would be willing to dismiss as conspiracy theory the idea of “stealth-jihad” if I haven’t seen numerous documents citing just that very concept, and steps to that end. Unfortunately that isn’t the case and here we are with Pamela and others sounding the claxon alarm, and everyone standing around with their fingers in their ears, “lalalalala I can’t hear you…”.

ebonystone
ebonystone
12 years ago

In regard to Swiss neutrality:
Switzerland’s neutrality was a matter of international law; it had been declared neutral by all the signatories of the Treaty of Vienna in 1815, and successor regimes to those signatories since 1815 had all likewise agreed to the treaty, with the notable exception of Soviet Russia, which renounced all the czarist treaties.
Thus Switzerland did not have to declare its neutrality, as Sweden did successfully, and Denmark and the Netherlands did unsuccessfully. Switzerland WAS neutral, period.
However, Switzerland could violate its own neutrality, by violating the terms of the treaty, or by tilting its policies too far in favor of one side or another. Thus the treaties forbade the shipment of troops or weapons through Switzerland, and these the Swiss never allowed, while the neutral Swedes did. But other materials could not be forbidden, that would have violated the treaties. For example, Switzerland could not allow a trainload of tanks through Switzerland from Germany to Italy — those were weapons. But a trainload of diesel engines could be shipped, and in fact had to be allowed, because engines were not weapons, even though it was highly likely they’d be used to power tanks or submarines.
Similarly, German troops, in uniform and with their rifles, could not be transported across Switzerland, but Germans in civilian clothes, with civilian passports and without weapons, could be — even if they actually were soldiers.
Ths Swiss were fully prepared to defend their country if necessary. At the start of the war, Switzerland declared mobilization and a state of emergency; by Sept. 3, over 600,000 men were at their posts, armed. The Nazis gave up any idea of conquering Switzerland (at least until all other adversaries had been dealt with) when the German general staff advised them of how difficult it would be, and how many casualties it would cost. Switzerland would not have been a walk-over, like Denmark and the Netherlands.

karl anglin
karl anglin
12 years ago

Thank you Mr. Wilders!!!!!!!!!

simon of alford
simon of alford
12 years ago

LOL!!! Geller, you talk about free speech but delete every comment that you dont like!!! Hypocrite Zionist pig.

Harrie Verstappen
Harrie Verstappen
12 years ago

The Danish Jews had to pay Danish fishermen what’s now USD4-5000 for a one-night-trip to Sweden where they were really welcomed. Times have changed.
With 800 “passengers” on one boat, those skippers must have been laughing all the way to the bank. Sure beat fishing for herring.

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