A Forgotten Chapter:
Holland Under the Third Reich

This is a transcript of a lecture which was presented by Anthony Anderson at The University of Southern California on October 17, 1995. Address inquiries and comments to: anthonya@usc.edu

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Holland Before the Occupation

• World War I and the Years Thereafter
• The Rise of Nazi Germany
• The Phony War
• Holland Invaded
• The Bombing of Rotterdam

The New Order Established

• The Establishment of Holland as a Nazi State
• The Beginnings of Resistance
• Anton Mussert and the Dutch Nazi Party

The Screws Tighten

• Relentless Nazification
• Economic Exploitaion
• The Persecution of the Jews

Opposition Mounts

• Resistance Intensifies
• The February Strike
• Queen Wilhelmina in Exile

1942-1943: The War Drags On

• Two Fronts; The Loss of the Dutch East Indies
• The April-May Strike, 1943

The Last Horrible Year

• D-Day and the Allied Invasion
• "Dolle Dinsdag"
• Operation Market Garden
• The Hunger Winter
• Liberation

Epilogue--Holland: The End as a Neutral State

The Netherlands in World War II: A Bibliography. Sources used for this lecture.

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