Quotes about Dutch Resistance

Josh Pais

My father was born in Amsterdam in a highly religious family. He was in Amsterdam, and he went into hiding right near where Anne Frank was. He was a theoretical physicist and the last Jew to get a Ph.D. in Amsterdam.

Jane Seymour

My mother lived in Holland, and during World War II was incarcerated in a Japanese camp for three years.

Els Borst

If I had been prime minister, I would have offered apologies to the Dutch Jewish community without hesitation. This would refer both to our government's attitude during the Second World War and to the very late postwar discovery that the restitution process had been poorly conceived.

Hermann Goering

I considered the attacks on London useless, and I told the Fuhrer again and again that inasmuch as I knew the English people as well as I did my own people, I could never force them to their knees by attacking London. We might be able to subdue the Dutch people by such measures but not the British.

Nigel Pearson

When I went to the 2007 Europeans with the Under-21s, we were based at Oosterbeek near Arnhem and I went out on my bike a few times. We went over the bridge. I went to some of the war cemeteries there: very, very moving.

Douglas Brinkley

Although Cronkite had once crash landed in a Dutch potato field under enemy fire, he chose instead to focus on celebrating the liberation of the Netherlands at the hands of the Free Dutch.

Herman Willem Daendels

Any inhabitant of soldier in the service of Holland who opposes the orders of the Revolutionary Government will be punished by death as a rebel and traitor to his country.

The “Revolutionary Government” were the Patriot Coup leaders who had seized part of the country but the monarch still had many supporters including his soldiers. This proclamation, with the French troops to back it up, assured that the coup would succeed. Daendels had earlier fled to France when his first Dutch revolutionary efforts failed and he had a price on his head. He was in Paris during the French Revolution and was an enthusiastic supporter. For his support and with his military experience not associated with royalty, he was made a General of the Revolutionary French Army. When the Dutch Patriots tried again to revolt, the new French Government took their side and sent Daendels to Holland at the head of a small French Army to protect the Patriots. This was his position when he issued this proclamation to the great distress of William V and his supporters. William’s troops were particularly intimidated and many deserted and would not protect the monarch against the Patriots.

Herman Willem Daendels

Every righteous Netherlander, like me, burns to take up arms in his hands to show that we are truly worthy of our French brothers and not as despicable as William of Orange [the Monarch William V] supposes.

Daendels had in earlier years fled to France when his first Dutch revolutionary efforts failed and he had a price on his head. He was in Paris during the French Revolution and was an enthusiastic supporter. For his support and with his military experience not associated with royalty, he was made a General of the Revolutionary French Army. When the Dutch Patriots tried again to revolt, the new French Government took their side and sent Daendels to Holland at the head of a small French Army to protect the Patriots. This was his position when he issued this proclamation to the great distress of William V and his supporters.

Kurt Student

The secondary attack was made against The Hague. Its aim was to get a hold upon the Dutch capital, and in particular to capture the Government offices and the Service headquarters.

Els Borst

My feeling is that if all Catholics or Reformed Christians had been deported to Germany, the Dutch government in London would have instructed the population in the occupied Netherlands to help them.

Dutch Resistance Quotes