Tuesday, July 19, 2011

Seyss-Inquart inspects the Arbeidsdienst, Netherlands, 1943

Hitler's governor (Reichskommissar) in the Netherlands, Arthur Seyss-Inquart inspects a parade of the Arbeidsdienst in Leewarden in 1943. Seyss-Inquart was a lawyer and later Nazi official in pre-Anschluss Austria, the Third Reich and for wartime Germany in Poland and from 1940, the Netherlands. At the Nürnberg Trials, he was found guilty of crimes against humanity and executed in October 1946.

For more, see the book Can't is not in my Vocabulary by Bert ten Broeke.

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