In 2025, the Dutch will make available to the public a massive data base of more than thirty million documents on accused World War II Nazi collaborators. It includes most of the evidence used in past trials of collaborators “including police reports, witness depositions, material evidence and photos.” The Netherlands is not the first to make such files public. However, the ease of access to the public is new and something that is a cause for both praise and concern.
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The horrors inflicted upon Dutch Jews during the Holocaust were staggeringly evil, nothing short of genocidal. In her riveting book, The Diary Keepers, Nina Siegal lets the people who lived through the darkest period in modern Dutch history tell their own stories as she artfully weaves together in chronological and logical order selected excerpts from nine diaries, collected from more than 2,000 diaries written during the war.