The names of some 425,000 suspected Dutch collaborators went online 80 years after the Holocaust ended, making them accessible to historians and descendants as the country grapples with its past.
The Dutch national archive has warned that some of the names included in a new listing of people suspected or convicted of collaborating with the Nazis during World War II may have been added in error.
Eight decades after the defeat of the Nazis, a debate in the Netherlands asks how much of the largest Dutch war archive should be made available online.View on euronews
The National Archives already knew last year that the names of innocents or even victims appear in a sensitive archive with files about Dutch people who were accused of collaborating with the German forces during the Second World War.
The newly-digitized documents, consisting of 32 million pages, are held by the Dutch National Archives and reveal that, of the 425,000 names listed, only around 150,000 were punished for their collaboration. The law that restricted public access to the documents’ expired on New Year’s Day, allowing the War in Court project to release them online.
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