Table of Contents

FASCISM IN THE PRE-WAR NETHERLANDS
Nationaal-Socialistische Beweging (NSB, National Socialist Movement)
Nationale Jeugdstorm (NJS, National Youth Force)
Nationaal-Socialistische
Nederlandse Arbeiderspartij (NSNAP, National Socialist Netherlands Workers’ Party)
Zwart Front (ZF, Black Front) and Nationaal Front (NF, National Front)
Grauwe Vendels (GV, Grey Banners)
THE MILITARY OCCUPATION, 1940–45
THE SECURITY APPARATUS
General Commission for Security
Local security forces: Nazification of the Dutch police
Wachtmannen (Watchmen)
Kontroll-Kommando (KK, Control Guard)
Nederlandse Landwacht (LW, Home Guard)
Landstorm Nederland (LSN, Territorial Defence Force)
GROWTH OF THE RESISTANCE, 1940–44
Continuing the fight from Great Britain
The ‘England Game’
Emergence of the first resistance movements: Communistische Partij Nederland (CPN, Netherlands
Communist Party)
Geuzen (‘Beggars’)
Ordedienst (OD, Order Service)
CS-6
Raad van Verzet (RVV, Resistance Council)
Three women RVV fighters
Landelijke Organisatie voor Hulp aan Onderduikers (LO, National Organizationfor Help to People in Hiding)
The decisive general strike, April–May 1943
Landelijke Knokploegen (LKP, National Assault Teams)
Prison raids
OPEN WARFARE, FROM SEPTEMBER 1944
ALLIED LIBERATION OPERATIONS, 1944–45
GLOSSARY AND ABBREVIATIONS
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX

Promotional Information

Describes and illustrates the full range of Dutch resistance groups and German and collaborationist counter-resistance groups during the Nazi occupation in 1940-45.

About the Author

KLAAS CASTELEIN holds a BA degree in History and an MA in Conflict Studies and Human Rights. He researchers into local military history and is a collector of documents and other materials. His family have connections to the wartime Resistance movement in the Netherlands.

MICHEL WENTING LLM is a researcher into local military history and a collector of documents and other materials. He has family connections to the wartime Resistance movement in the Netherlands.

Reviews

The story of the country's occupation is not a subject widely covered and this book redresses that in a highly informative way that goes beyond what the reader may think they already know.
*Gun Mart & Militaria Mart magazine*

I found this taught me a lot that I had not known before, so a good value addition to your references, and with artwork which is likely to attract many modellers with the inspiration/reference of some less familiar uniforms to try.
*Military Model Scene*

'An abundance of books has been written about resistance and collaboration in the Netherlands during the Second World War, but not too many of them in English. Klaas Castelein from Duiven and Michel Wenting from Doesburg did write about it in English.'

'We realized that most books about resistance and collaboration had been written in Dutch. As a result, foreigners cannot disclose any information about this, yet its history is incredibly fascinating.'

Wenting and Castelein sketch a balanced view: 'In some parts of the country the Resistance seriously contributed to the liberation, but in other parts they got passionately engaged in exacting vengeance on Germans and collaborators'.
*De Gelderlander*