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madaboutharry

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2. For decades, the Dutch used the memory of Anne Frank as cover.

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Thu Jan 23, 2025, 03:05 AM

Jan 23

They hid behind the heroism of Miep Gies, as if the whole nation should be credited with the status of The Righteous Among the Nations. The math is simple: 75% of Dutch Jews could not have perished in the Holocaust without the collaboration of Dutch officials and the collaboration of the local population.

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