Netherlands in World War II
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World War II in the Netherlands can be broken down into four periods:
The city of Rotterdam after the German bombing during the Battle of the Netherlands in May 1940
A bunker of the Peel-Raam Line, built in 1939
![De Telegraaf issue from 10 May 1940 reporting on the invasion. The lead headline reads "Bitter resistance on the Ijsel and Maas [rivers]; Four German](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a4/De_Telegraaf_issue_from_10_May_1940.jpeg/500px-De_Telegraaf_issue_from_10_May_1940.jpeg)
De Telegraaf issue from 10 May 1940 reporting on the invasion. The lead headline reads "Bitter resistance on the Ijsel and Maas [rivers]; Four German armored trains out of action." At center is a public announcement of resistance from Queen Wilhelmina.
Dutch soldiers guard the Holland Water Line shortly after mobilisation, 1939
The Reichskommissariat Niederlande, formally the Reich Commissariat for the Occupied Dutch Territories, was the civilian occupation regime set up by Germany in the German-occupied Netherlands during W
Netherlands in World War II
…return from London and continue to govern under German control, as France and Denmark had done. When government leaders refused, Germany established the Reichskommissariat Niederlande ("Dutch Imperial Commission") as the occupation regime, assuming power on 29 May 1940, with its headquarters in The Hague. Austrian Nazi Arthur…
Arthur Seyss-Inquart in The Hague
Regional Standards of the Dutch SS
An NSB rally in Amsterdam, 27 June 1941
Collaborationist propaganda, 1944