“History repeasts itself. This time they surrendered to the smoking nazis.”
cheap shot, what exactly did you expect NL (or denmark, for that matter, or even belgium though there were more complex issues there) to do in the second world war?
If anything they managed to avoid this longer than MANY other places, including many states of the US. You might as well say history reverses itself, and x states in the US surrendered before the Netherlands.
Beatrix’s royal wedding to Claus von Amsberg long after the war also caused controversy.