National concerns and international collaboration. The Dutch and the Germanization of Nazi occupied Eastern Europe

Authors

  • Geraldien von Frijtag Drabbe Künzel Utrecht University

Keywords:

Collaboration, Germanization, The Netherlands, National-socialist expansionism

Abstract

During WWII, the Nazi-leadership inevitably used the services of ‘foreigners’ for its expansionist ambitions. Insofar as they supplied their services voluntarily, there are huge questions about the extent to which these grassroots level participants shared the same imperialist outlook as the leadership, and how the larger ideological aims of the Nazi-regime applied and were reconfigured at a local level. This article explores the Dutch contribution to the Nazi policy of Germanization in occupied Eastern Europe. It analyses the motives, experiences and expectations among the Dutch volunteers and supervisors.
Although most were favoring the establishment of a Greater Germanic Reich, they also had clear national goals: their work would help to restore Dutch grandeur by acquiring extra markets and territories. This article shows that these two aims were essentially incompatible and seriously complicated German-Dutch collaboration.

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Author Biography

Geraldien von Frijtag Drabbe Künzel, Utrecht University

Dr. Geraldien von Frijtag Drabbe Künzel (1965) received her doctorate in History from the University of Amsterdam in 1999. She has been a researcher at the NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies in the Netherlands and currently holds the position of Assistant Professor of History at Utrecht University. She is the author of Het Geval Calmeyer (2008), which deals with the Holocaust in the occupied Netherlands and, more specifically, the application of racial laws and regulations in that country. Her latest research examines the Dutch participation in the Germanization project in the occupied East: the monograph, Hitlers Burdervolk: The Dutch and the Germanization of occupied Eastern Europe (1939-1945) will be published in July 2015.

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How to Cite

Künzel, G. von F. D. (2016). National concerns and international collaboration. The Dutch and the Germanization of Nazi occupied Eastern Europe. Segle XX, Revista Catalana d’Història, (8), 1–21. Retrieved from https://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/segleXX/article/view/15132

Issue

No. 8 (2015)

Section

Researches and essays

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