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Several factors suggest that a future occupation may create more Dutch Quislings than the last1. Unfortunately, because the threat of a third World War is no longer an academic question, one must consider this problem.
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To be sure, memories of the recent purge will serve to make collaboration unattractive to many who suffered from it. It is possible that only a few World War II Quislings would be disloyal again.
In 1948 the Communists obtained 7.7 per cent of the vote, and in 1946 10.6 per cent. In 1946 more than 600,000 Dutchmen voted Communist.
On March 7, 1949 the Dutch Communist party declared itself to be in complete agreement with the statements of Thorez and Togliatti. (Keesings Historisch Archief, 1949, p. 8011).
New York Herald Tribune (Paris), February 24, 1949.
Ibid., March 11, 1949.
J. Wechsberg, “Letter from Prague”, The New Yorker, August 6, 1949.
M. Guehenno, quoted by D. Pickles, France between the Republics (London, 1946), p. 139.
Van Hoesel, op. cit., pp. 149-151. Another author called the post-war increase of anti-Semitism “a reaction to Nazi propaganda, and mainly the consequence of the forced separation of Jews from the rest of the population, during the occupation”. (J. W. Matthijsen, Het Anti-Semitisme in Na-Oorlogstijd [Barendrecht, 1945], p. 51). Cf. also Onderdrukking en Verzet, II, 138-139. Neo-Facism, as a political movement, has not yet reappeared in Holland. (Cf. Professor van Bemmelen, Revue de droit pénal et criminologie, November 1947, p. 185). Its prospects do not seem bright, unless Germany is again permitted to adopt Nazism.
“Soekarno [the president of the new Indonesian state] … is nothing but a stooge left behind by the Japanese, who is now again used by England and the United States to hide … their determined intentions to chase us from the Indies, of course not in the interests of the natives, but because of the concessions which Soekarno … will have to grant to these ‘Allies’ of ours.” (J. E. van der Starp, op. cit., p. 64). Concerning Mr. van der Starp, see note 48, Ch. V. Although this quotation should certainly not be called representative of the feelings of the great majority of Dutchmen, similar sentiments have been expressed to the author on many occasions.
Dautricourt believed that the mildness and mistakes of the Belgian purge after World War I contributed much to encourage collaboration in World War II. (La Trahison, p. 56).
Nederlandsch Juristenblad, Kamerstukken, No. 470, p. 24.
The report of this commission is not expected before late 1950. In the three Scandinavian countries similar commissions are at work. Prof. Stephan Hurwitz heads the Danish. An international commission of jurists has been organized to study problems relating to Quislings and war criminals — the Commission internationale permanente pour l’étude de la repression des crimes contre le droit des gens et des faits commis dans l’interêt de l’ennemi. Most Western European countries are members. Headquarters of the commission is in Brussels, and its journal is the Revue de droit pénal et criminologie.
Article 196, adopted on September 3, 1948.
J. Dautricourt, l’Article 115 du Code Pénal et la repression de la collaboration économique (Brussels, 1945), p. 97.
Noach, op. cit., pp. 165-166.
Tribunalen in Nederland, 1945–1946, p. 192.
Noach, op. cit., p. 166.
De Bock, op. cit., p. 45.
Bekaert, Maatschappelijke Problemen van het Incivisme, pp. 5-6. The same point is made by: Ganshof van der Meersch (op. cit., pp. 83-84); Dautricourt (La Trahison, p. 34); the Belgian Minister of Justice, Mr. Lilar (Revue de droit pénal et criminologie, November 1947, p. 165); a Dutch psychiatrist, Dr. A. L. C. Palies (De Politieke Delinquent [Assen, 1948] pp. 24-25); Ds. Bardeloos (Toezicht, I, 30-32).
De Bock, op. cit., pp. 25-26.
Palies, op. cit., p. 24.
Reinhold Niebuhr, Moral Man and Immoral Society: A Study in Ethics and Politics (New York, 1932), p. 4.
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Mason, H.L. (1952). The Outlook for the Future. In: The Purge of Dutch Quislings. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-9532-4_7
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