Dutch Resistance Museum Amsterdam

Dutch Resistance Museum - - A museum in Amsterdam about the various forms of resistance against the Nazi occupiers during WWII in the Netherlands – but it also goes beyond just that. This is the richest of Amsterdam's dark sights, as far as the sheer amount of information is concerned. > More background info > What there is to see > Location > Access and costs > Time required > Combinations with other dark destinations > Combinations with non-dark destinations More background info: The Netherlands were occupied by Nazi Germany from May 1940 until early 1945. As a small country it was simply overrun as it didn't have the means to stem the military might of the aggressor. At first, things weren't too bad for the ordinary people – and there wasn't all that much resistance either. But both things changed, hand in hand. The Nazis soon brought in their trademark persecution of the Jews, more and more laws of repression were enforced, and in the end the best part of the Dutch Jewry was deported and murdered in the Holocaust . One element of resistance was to hide Jews to save them from persecution – the most famous case being that of the Frank family, documented in the Anne Frank House . But there was also political resistance, both active and passive (indirect). This ranged from mere contempt for the occupiers expressed e.g. through jokes and caricatures, to the forging documents and distributing flyers, and full-blown partisan guerrilla tactics of sabotage and attacks. Resistance in Holland never reached the levels it did in Poland , but it was elaborate enough to grant it this museum – the fact that there was also collaboration is not swept under the carpet, though. The relative proportions of resistance and collaboration are still somewhat of a delicate issue in Holland.