13 Facts About Dutch resistance

Dutch resistance developed relatively slowly, but the February strike of 1941 greatly stimulated resistance.

The Dutch resistance generally prefer to use the term illegaliteit for all those activities that were illegal, contrary, underground, or unarmed.

The Dutch resistance had not engaged in war with any European nation since 1830.

Dutch resistance forces succeeded in defeating the Germans in the first-ever large-scale paratroop-cum-airborne attack in history and in recapturing the three German-occupied airfields surrounding the Hague at the end of the first the day of the attack.

The Dutch resistance state remained in the war as a combatant and immediately made its naval assets available for the joint allied war effort, starting with the evacuation from Dunkirk.

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Dutch resistance succeeded in stopping the German advance for four days.

Nazis considered the Dutch resistance to be fellow Aryans and were more manipulative in the Netherlands than in other occupied countries, which made the occupation seem mild at least at first.

IJzerdraat started to build an illegal Dutch resistance organization called De Geuzen, named after a group who rebelled against Spanish occupation in the 16th century.

The Dutch resistance brought the churches together in their common struggle.

The Catholic stance on the protection of converted Jews, among others Edith Stein, a philosopher who was then a nun in a Dutch resistance convent, led to special prosecution of those Jews, sister Stein being deported.

The Dutch resistance struck four more times against the Germans: the students' strike in November 1940, the doctors' strike in 1942, the April–May strike in 1943 and the railway strike in 1944.

One of the most widespread resistance activities was hiding and sheltering refugees and enemies of the Nazi regime, which included concealing Jewish families like that of Anne Frank, underground operatives, draft-age Dutchmen and, later in the war, Allied aircrew.

Major role in keeping the Dutch resistance alive was played by the BBC Radio Oranje, the broadcasting service of the Dutch government-in-exile and Radio Herrijzend Nederland which broadcast from the Southern part of the country.