Eight decades after the Holocaust, the list was made public in the country of Anne Frank as a law prohibiting its release expired on New Year’s Day.

Summary

The Netherlands has released a digital archive of 425,000 suspected Nazi collaborators from World War II, following the expiration of a law prohibiting its publication.

The list, compiled by the Huygens Institute’s “War in Court” project, documents the investigations of mostly Dutch individuals, with only 20% ever tried.

This revelation sheds light on the scale of Dutch complicity during Nazi occupation.

While historians and educators hail it as a significant resource, some descendants of those named have expressed concern about potential backlash.

Access to more detailed records remains restricted to researchers.

  • Flying Squid
    13•3 days ago

    I’m glad my own name didn’t make it to the list. Those terrible people! No one will ever know.

    • @breakingcups
      15•3 days ago

      You’d have to be dead for your name to show up on this list

      • Flying Squid
        24•3 days ago

        I’d also have to be Dutch. And also not Jewish.

        One of the many bizarre details about my life and the people around me: my dad’s best friend was a Jewish kid in Amsterdam when the Nazis invaded. He was actually in school with Anne Frank’s older sister. He spent the war hiding in an empty water tower. I never asked him about it though, I didn’t want to know how bad it was to be honest.