On the social network “I'm a little disappointed that I haven't managed to find a single member of my family yet”before posting, triumphantly, half an hour later: ” I've found ! My grandfather's youngest brother! » He attached to his message a screenshot of the site Oorlog voor de Rechter (“war in court”). Under the name of this great uncle appears the mention “was investigated for collaboration”followed by the reference of the archive file which concerns it and a direct link to an appointment form at the national archives of the Netherlands, to consult its contents.
Like this Internet user, there are hundreds of thousands of people, Dutch, descendants of Dutch, but also descendants of victims of deportation, to have consulted this database, freely accessible on the Internet. The site, the result of a project carried out at the national archives and financed by public funds, lists in particular the nearly 20,000 Dutch people who joined the German armed forces and the alleged members of the National Socialist Movement, the Dutch Nazi party. .
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