Then about 23 minutes later they interviewed another fellow, who stated how the greatest failing of the Dutch People during the war, was their Lethargic attitude towards the Nazi's and the Deportation of Jews, and how that Sin will always be with their nation.
Just and Interesting Little Factoid I thought, to show how leftist think when you literally do nothing, they think they did something.
The experience was not unique to the Dutch. It was all too common among the occupied countries. To resist the Germans would have brought harsh reprisal. On the other hand, actively assisting them bought some respite and at a low cost. Frankly, most of Europe then, as now, hated the Jews in their midst and were glad to be shed of them. Pogroms had gone out of fashion, alas, but here was an opportunity to begin them anew!
The Dutch did establish the 23rd volunteeer panzer grenadier division - Waffen SS. There were a lot of them, a plurality at least, who identified with the Nazis. The common Dutch phenotyope fit the Aryan ideal quite well.
The Holocaust could never have been so successful were it not for the enthusiastic participation by the local authorities all over occupied Europe. They cheerfully drew the proverbial chalk lines around the Jewish ghettos for the Germans and opened their records to the Einsatzgruppen and the other organs of the Final Solution.
Disinter our heroic war dead and bring them home. Let the Ishmaelites have them. They’re barren and dead already.