Anton Adriaan Mussert was a Dutch politician who co-founded the National Socialist Movement in the Netherlands in 1931 and served as its leader until the party was banned in 1945.
13 Facts About Anton Mussert
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In May 1945, as the war came to an end in Europe, Anton Mussert was captured and arrested by Allied forces.
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Anton Mussert was charged and convicted of treason, and was executed in 1946.
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Anton Mussert was born on 11 May 1894 in Werkendam, in the northern part of the province of North Brabant in the Netherlands.
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Anton Mussert married his aunt Maria Witlam, his mother's sister, in 1917 despite opposition from his mother.
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Thereafter, Anton Mussert worked toward preventing resistance to a German invasion.
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Anton Mussert was not appointed prime minister of the occupied nation.
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Anton Mussert responded by working with the Gestapo in stopping resistance to the German occupation.
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On 21 June 1940 Anton Mussert agreed to have NSB members train with the SS-Standarte 'Westland'.
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Anton Mussert had nothing to do with the raising of an all-Dutch volunteer SS unit, the SS-Freiwilligen-Legion Niederlande.
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In February 1941, Anton Mussert agreed to and oversaw the formation of the 23rd SS Volunteer Panzer Grenadier Division Nederland, which trained in Hamburg.
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On 13 December 1942, Hitler declared Anton Mussert to be "Leider van het Nederlandse Volk".
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On 7 May 1946, exactly one year after his arrest and four days before his 52nd birthday, Anton Mussert was executed by a firing squad on the Waalsdorpervlakte, a site near The Hague, where hundreds of Dutch citizens had been killed by the Nazi regime.