Word: hollanders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...leaving its survivors in a confused struggle among the ruins? A year later it was still too soon to know. Many glimpses of Europe yielded gloomy answers. But for a scene full of hope that Europe was in truth rising again, the world could turn to Vught, in southern Holland...
...mild May sky. One year has passed since the invaders were routed, leaving The Netherlands' cities in ruins and nearly 10% of her fields flooded. In that year the brine-soaked polders (fields reclaimed from the sea) have been drained, and some are again growing grass for Holland's dairy herds and grain for Holland's bread. The sandy flats along the North Sea are ablaze again with tulips and hyacinth and narcissus. Broken windows are neatly patched, the cities' rubble cleaned up. Everywhere men are painting doors and balconies and polishing the brass door knobs...
Despite their shortages, the Dutch public will not tolerate a black market, though there is some illegal traffic in cigarets (the legal weekly ration is 40). Dealers in the "poison market," as it is labeled by the Government, are sent to Veenhuizen prison to make shoes, one of Holland's scarcest commodities...
...Beer & Bicycles. Confidence in Holland's future pervades the moist spring air. The Royal Dutch Airlines is resuming biweekly flights to New York in a few weeks. Trains between Amsterdam and The Hague, which last year took seven hours to make a trip, are back on their old schedules and running every hour. The famed Heineken Brewery at Amsterdam is opening again. Philips, Europe's greatest exporters of electric bulbs and radio equipment, is operating at 60% of capacity, expects to hit 100% soon. The Dutch, who use bicycles as Americans use autos, may have to wait until...
Driven from Germany in 1937 (Hitler felt that both his art and his theories were "degenerate"), Beckmann pursued his invisible, immutable Ego to Holland, spent the war years stalking it around the vast, onetime tobacco storeroom which is his Amsterdam studio...