This Cannot Happen Here

Front matter

STUDIES OF THE NIOD INSTITUTE FOR WAR, HOLOCAUST AND GENOCIDE STUDIES

This Niop series covers peer reviewed studies on war, holocaust and genocide in twentieth century societies, covering a broad range of historical approaches including social, economic, political, diplomatic, intellectual and cultural, and focusing on war, mass violence, anti- Semitism, fascism, colonialism, racism, transitional regimes and the legacy and memory

of war and crises.

Part II

Apprehension (May 1940 — December 1940) Segregation (November 1940 — May 1942) Deportation (July 1942 — September 1944)

Resistance

Conclusion 155

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Acknowledgements

I am grateful to the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research for their financial support, which enabled me to work for a year as a part-time Researcher in the Research Department of the Niop Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies on the completion of the manuscript for this book.

I would also like to thank Peter Romijn, Conny Kristel, Dan Michman, Hans Blom, Madelon de Keizer and Norma Braber-McKinney, who read early drafts of the manuscript.