I’m basing this on street interviews they did on the “Geschiedenis inside” podcast, “Johan de Witt: Het Rampjaar, fake news en moord”, I haven’t found it in the history books of my own kids (yet) – and I, can’t remember ever learning about it in school. But I’ll admit this is all anecdotal up to a point.
Still, I – with a higher then average interest in history – learned about the story of the lynching and subsequent biting and “eating” of the de Witt brothers from internet memes.
Having said that, it was also in “the story of holland”, and in the podcast I mentioned, so it might very well be that the story has gotten more traction over the years
I’m basing this on street interviews they did on the “Geschiedenis inside” podcast, “Johan de Witt: Het Rampjaar, fake news en moord”, I haven’t found it in the history books of my own kids (yet) – and I, can’t remember ever learning about it in school. But I’ll admit this is all anecdotal up to a point.
Still, I – with a higher then average interest in history – learned about the story of the lynching and subsequent biting and “eating” of the de Witt brothers from internet memes. Having said that, it was also in “the story of holland”, and in the podcast I mentioned, so it might very well be that the story has gotten more traction over the years