The Dutch Famine: How One Man’s Nazi Power Play Starved A Nation
In this episode of Nazi Collaborators, we take a look at the rise and fall of Anton Mussert, a Dutch nationalist and leader of the National Socialist Movement (NSB) in the Netherlands. Despite initially claiming to be a patriot who would protect his people, Mussert’s ambition led him to collaborate with the Nazis. His decision to align with Hitler resulted in the betrayal of his countrymen, the deaths of thousands of young Dutch men sent to the Eastern Front, and his complicity in the extermination of over 100,000 Dutch Jews. As the war turned against Germany, the Allies’ failed Operation Market Garden led to a brutal Nazi retaliation: a blockade of food and fuel to the Dutch people that resulted in the devastating “hunger winter,” where 16,000 Dutch people died of starvation and cold. Credit to : The World History Channel