Word: hollanders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Equally uncompromising is the attitude of Holland's Calvinists. The Nazi-backed Deutsche Zeitung fur die Niederlanden complains that "The Dutch churches have been veritable centres of opposition to the Reich." At a Protestant meeting in Amsterdam former Cabinet Minister J. R. Slotemaker de Bruine apostrophized the Nazis: "Do not expect us to drive out of public life that which is most holy. Spiritual freedom, freedom of church, school and opinion, lies in our very blood." About a third of The Netherlands' 8,700,000 population are Catholics, an other third strict Calvinists, the rest most ly Calvinists...
...Holland's 160,000 Jews (less than 2% of the population) are highly regarded. When Jews in one city were charged with harboring British agents and assessed a 50,000-guilder fine to be paid within six hours, the sum was raised in time by Christians who handed the money over to the local rabbi, while in five Protestant churches in Amsterdam protests were openly uttered. When a Jewish professor was forced out of the University of Delft (Dutch M. I. T.) the students struck. Nazis closed the university the next day. Said an alumnus...
...Eijkman was thrown into concentration camp for denouncing the Nazi policy, scoring the persecution of Jews as unChristian, and writing: "If we do not compromise, if we are willing to suffer for our faith, we will find the path to the heart of our people. There are in Holland more than 7,000 who do not want to bow before Baal. And behind these 7,000 and more, stand millions who are united today in one common creed. This union needs no demonstrations. One demonstration is made by them each week, every Sunday morning, when they go to church...
...accounts; 2) Dutch Minister Alexander Loudon who, as Wilhelmina's accredited U. S. representative, claims all Dutch assets in the U. S. for the duration; 3) two U. S. residents for whom Bankierskantoor held securities valued at $84,000 and who, feeling queasy about ever recovering in Holland, attached what ever assets in the U. S. they could discover (these two claimants happen to be famed German-born, British-naturalized stage and movie horror-star Conrad Veidt and German refugee-banker Eduard Wallach); 4) John Doe and Richard Roe, unknowns representing a London Dutch-Commission-in-Exile...
Steiner slips back into Austria: he is hoping for some word from his wife (Frances Dee) who is still in Germany. Kern hopes to find his refugee father in Prague, finds him dead. But in Prague, at a boarding house for refugees, Ludwig meets Ruth Holland (Margaret Sullavan), a medical student until she fled from Berlin when her lover denounced her publicly as a Jewess...