The Nazi murder and wholesale expulsion of Dutch Jews from Holland will be avenged, the Netherlands News, organ of the Dutch Government-in-Exile, states in commenting on the Nazi announcement that “the Jewish problem in Holland has been solved” and that the several thousand Jew. remaining are in concentration camps, awaiting final deportation.
“The Netherlands, which presented humanity with many great lawgivers and has ever led the world in religious and racial tolerance, cannot breathe freely and take up its place among the leading democratic nations before it has obtained the full measure of justice for the murder of these innocent and defenseless citizens,” the article says.
“The wholesale murder of the Jewish Netherlands is to us a heinous crime – worse in its horrifying barbarism than the destruction of Warsaw, or the razing of Lydice,” it declares. “While those towns were annihilated in wild fury and with paranoiac vandalism, the destruction of Holland’s Jews has been a coolly calculated business, a cat-and-mouse game, atrociously drawn out over months and years.
“One hundred eighty thousand Netherlands citizens – loyal and respected burghers, thrifty and useful to their motherland – have been murdered in a large number of ways, resembling each other only in that they are unspeakable. It is of no interest to us whether among these victims of Hitlerian madness there were Jews, half-Jews or adherents to any other creed. All we know is that the wanton slaughter of Rotterdam has now been repeated many times over. All we will remember is that such abominable mass murder must be avenged.”
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