Title: Netherlands in World War II - Wikipedia
Headings: Netherlands in World War II
Netherlands in World War II
Contents
Interbellum
Neutrality
German invasion
Bombing of Rotterdam
Dutch surrender
German occupation
Life in the occupied Netherlands
Luftwaffe
Forced labour and resistance
Atlantic Wall
Holocaust
Collaboration
Dutch resistance
Dutch government in exile
Dutch East Indies and the war in the Far East
The final year
Hunger Winter
Liberation
Casualties
After the war
See also
References
Further reading
External links

Content: From 1933, the Netherlands were hit by the Great Depression, which had begun in 1929. The incumbent government of Hendrikus Colijn pursued a programme of extensive cuts to maintain the value of the Guilder, resulting in workers' riots in Amsterdam and a naval mutiny between 1933 and 1934. Eventually, in 1936, the government was forced to abandon the gold standard and devalue the currency. Numerous fascist movements emerged in the Netherlands during the Great Depression era, inspired by Italian Fascism or German Nazism. But, they never attracted enough members to be an effective mass-movement. The National Socialist Movement in the Netherlands (Nationaal-Socialistische Beweging, NSB) supported by the National Socialist German Workers' Party which took power in Germany in 1933, attempted to expand in 1935. Nazi-style racial ideology had limited appeal in the Netherlands, as did its calls to violence. At the time of the outbreak of World War II, the NSB was already declining, both in number of members and numbers of voters. During the interwar period the government undertook a significant increase in civil infrastructure projects and land reclamation, including the Zuiderzee Works. This resulted in the final draining of seawater from the Wieringermeerpolder, and the completion of the Afsluitdijk.