ommmm,.9 WEDNESDAY, dmY 23, 1952 THE MICHIGAN DAILY PAGE FIVE WEDNESDAY. JULY 23, 1952 PAGE PIVE ________________________________________________________________________________________________ I I OCCUPATION ATROCITIES STILL RANKLE: Dutch Remember German Rule cooling Offa a LOW PRICED BARGAIN DAY 1pecaI O By BARNES CONNABLE Special To The Daily AMSTERDAM-Lest we forget; --some wounds take a long time to heal. Don't mention the Germans ov- er here. For details consult Anne, Frank's diary of a young girl. THE WAR with the Germans ended seven years ago, but the, Dutch have long and bitter mem- ories. If you have never been ir. a town which was occupied by the, Germans, you have an experience ahead of you., We slept in a butcher's bed. The hotel we stayed at was offi- cers' quarters in Amsterdam. It wasn't a pleasant feeling. In this city, as in many others in; Holland, sidewalk monuments mark the spots where civilians were killed in cold blood by the Gestapo. At the University of Ut- recht we saw a plaque listing the names of -fmore than '75 murdered students and faculty, most of them - Jews. The Dutchman will not bring this grisly subject up, except when a fleeting reference is necessary to the topic at hand. When he's quer- ied about it, the kindness leaves his eyes, his jaw sets and he'll tell you about it-plenty. THE JEWS, of course, were the main target. The Nazis destroyed them with a ferocity and syste- matic horror which is hard to be- lieve. They sought them from house to house and shot them down when they found them. Young Dutchmen were placed on a list, rounded up and sent east for slave labor. The rest of them stayed and suffered, many of them working in the active Dutch underground., They came in the night. A weal- thy Dutch banker told us about the surprise attack on this peace-lov- ing nation. A member of the Dutch army, he was sleeping when the bombs woke him at 3 a.m. He raced outside and lifted his eyes above the havoc in the streets of Amsterdam. There they were-- thousands of fluffy white para- chutes in the black sky. It was, he recalls, the most terrifying sight of a lifetime. Jerry landed all around the city. At the port pillboxes, he knocked on the doors and when the Dutch sentries bade him enter he swiftly opened the portals and fired. * * * THE OCCUPATION, terrible as it was, apparently had one saving grace. The Germans, while they slaughtered innocents under ord- ers, were well-disciplined troops. Looting, raping and drunken- ness were kept to a bare mini- mum and the few culprits were severely punished. As far as dis- orderliness was concerned, the Dutch are far more resentful of the Canadian liberators, who made off not only with a good deal of liquor but a large part of the female population as well. A small nation hemmed in by war is bound to get more than ir- ritated at both sides of the con- flict. There was much bitterness, for instance, when the RAF, seek- ing out the rocket-bomb sites near the Hague, made a disastrous tar- get error and demolished a huge residential district. But there is only one land and one people which is despised the length and breadth of this tiny, teeming country of ten million na- tives-that is Germany and the Germans. * * * ANTI-GERMAN prejudice is at its peak here. German tourists are treated with the greatest courtesy in high-class hotels, but in shops and restaurants they get poor or no service. A German accent on the street is likely to be rewarded by looks of disgust and hatred, and some- times a fracas. On the other hand, the Dutch are realistic enough to seethe im- portance of Germany to them in their vital trade areas. And they reluctantly view the military pact with the Bonn government as a necessity. But they retain a deep- ly-felt and historically based dis- trust. You never hear "Nazi" over here. The word is "German" and they don't speak it-they spit it. * * * WE TALKED with the president of the student government at Am- sterdam University, a tall, com- manding youth named Gerald Van Dyke. His father was taken by the Germans and no word has been heard of him since. In presumptuous American fashion, we started calling him "Jerry" but we were soon put right. He doesn't like the name. Nobody does. While the tough, hard-working Dutch consider the French and Italians the weakest links in the Atlantic Pact, they have more re- spect for sentimentality and love of pleasure than the traits which they ascribe to the Germans. Americans are suckers, they say, to believe the German's plea that Hitler made him do it. Their out- look is that the Fuhrer had a race at his command which was ripe for the superman propaganda. 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