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Dutch police rounded up Jews and the government-in-exile ignored what it knew.
While many European countries that were allied with, or occupied by, Germany during World War II have taken considerable steps to acknowledge the complicity of some of their citizens in carrying out the Final Solution, the Dutch remain almost uniquely unwilling to do so. The country has displayed a similar reluctance to confront the uglier parts of its colonial history. Manfred Gerstenfeld writes:
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Dutch police rounded up Jews and the government-in-exile ignored what it knew.
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While many European countries that were allied with, or occupied by, Germany during World War II have taken considerable steps to acknowledge the complicity of some of their citizens in carrying out the Final Solution, the Dutch remain almost uniquely unwilling to do so. The country has displayed a similar reluctance to confront the uglier parts of its colonial history. Manfred Gerstenfeld writes:
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