A Forgotten Chapter: Holland Under the Third Reich

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Originally posted by FV623
Hanno and I have discussed this, and with some trepidation but in the interests of history perhaps, we should recognise the other side in that 22,000 Dutch nationals joined the SS. In a dangerous extrapolation therefore one could assume that the friends and family of these people were supportive and sympathetic, this would make a fairly large number.

The National Socialist Movement (NSB) had about 100,000 members during WW2. I have no details about the political conviction of those Dutch Waffen-SS volunteers, but one expects a large portion of them would come from NSB families.

H.