Anton Mussert
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Anton Adriaan Mussert was a Dutch politician who co-founded the National Socialist Movement in the Netherlands in 1931 and served as its leader until the party was banned in 1945. As such, he was the
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Mussert's membership card in the NSB
Mussert giving a speech to NSB volunteers in The Hague, October 1941. To the rear (L to R) are SS Obergruppenführer Hanns Albin Rauter, Dutch general Hendrik Seyffardt, Rijkscommissaris Arthur Seyss-Inquart, and SD Gruppenführer Wilhelm Harster.
Waalsdorpervlakte
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The Waalsdorpervlakte is a clearing in the dune area "Meijendel", where between 250 and 280 members of the Dutch resistance were killed by the Germans during World War II. After the liberation of the
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…She refused. On 7 May 1946, exactly one year after his arrest and four days before his 52nd birthday, Mussert was executed by a firing squad on the Waalsdorpervlakte, a site near The Hague, where hundreds of Dutch citizens had been killed by the Nazi regime. History of the Netherlands (1939–1945…
Bell on the Waalsdorpervlakte (used during the commemoration events)