While Dragging Our Hearts Behind Us
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Dutch, the Germans & the Jews
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When I wrote The Dutch, the Germans and the Jews, I did not realise that the article was to become so controversial. With regard to the wartime record of the Netherlands, the Dutch had, over the years, constructed a national image of heroic resistance against the German occupier. This image was complemented by a stress on Dutch support of its persecuted Jewish citizens. My article noted, however, that little was further from the truth. On virtually all levels, before and even during the war, a substantial number of Dutch people collaborated with Nazi Germany. The Jewish Dutch received only scant support. A good philosopher, according to Nietzsche, has to be the bad conscience of his time. I argue that this duty also applies to historians and journalists. I hope that my critique will be seen as an invitation to researchers to take a closer look at this black page in Dutch history.
Jan Herman Brinks, a specialist in the contemporary history of Germany and the Netherlands, has been a researcher at the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies of the Johns Hopkins University, at Bath University and at Birkbeck College in London. After working at the Centre for German-Jewish Studies at the University of Sussex he is currently an investigative journalist and a researcher.
- ISBN-13
- 9789463380379
- Publisher
- Aspekt Uitgeverij BV
- Imprint
- Aspekt Uitgeverij BV (NL)
- Publication date
- 13 October 2016
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 54
- Dimensions
- 200 x 125 mm
- Illustrations
- b/w photos
- Language
- English
