[stolen_biscuit]

Really? You don't sympathise with people getting murdered by Nazi's whilst defending their homeland because of the actions of a colonial government? If you drew a venn diagram of the people fighting against the Nazi's and the people committing colonial atrocities there wouldn't be a great deal of overlap save the exiled government and the churches. Most of the resistance were communists and other anti-fascist groups, hardly banner waving imperialists.

[jacquesm]

Precisely. So many people are utterly clueless about that slice of history. My next door neighbor - coincidentally - was one of those born in a camp while his father worked on the Thai-Burma railroad. Between him and the likes of Hannie Schaft they'd set the OP right if they had a chance.

The Dutch committed many war crimes and have had a very hard time admitting to them, in part because that part of history wasn't exactly taught in school and in part because it also requires admitting that the reason we are such a rich country is because we were good at trading, but mostly because we were good at stealing and slavery.

I think it will take until the Royal family will finally be thrown out for the last of the (very efficient) propaganda machine to be shut down and then we can really deal with this. Likely the Oranjes will end up forfeiting their fortune as part of a reparations deal or something like that. It makes perfect sense, they personally, more than anybody else profited from these atrocities and they were the first ones to flee the country during the war.