Comments by "" (@charlesvan13) on "The Aftermath of World War II in the Netherlands" video.

And the Dutch never speak ill of the Germans again.
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@HistoryHustle My dad had a cousin who was forced to plant trees and dig trenches by the Germans in Zeeland. They thought maybe the allied landing would be there, so they had to make it difficult for gliders to land.
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@maartjewaterman1193 What's really dissonant is that the French are really bitter over being liberated by the Americans. They even bring up the Revolutionary War in 1776, saying we're not grateful for their help. But there're more Americans in graves in France than that.
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@maartjewaterman1193 They must be really indoctrinated in nationalistic ideal in their schools. They have a huge sense of national pride. They have to go back to Napoleon for a victory, but he also lost in the end. But they just really have a chip on their shoulder over the Americans. The Dutch have the opposite (and normal) feeling toward the Canadians. "The French are convinced that their country is the centre of the universe and all other countries are just their satelites." They surrendered to the Wehrmacht in just 6 weeks.
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@maartjewaterman1193 Also, their behavior in Vichy France was contemptible. It basically cowardly fascists in France joining Hitler and his Final Solution--loading people into trains.
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@HistoryHustle It must be kind of annoying that internationally, say in the US, people confuse the Dutch and Germans. There are immigrants in PA, called the "Pennsylvania Dutch". But they're German. When they immigrated, people asked them where they're from: "Deutsch".
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There were a lot of traitors in continental Europe. The last defenders of the Reich Chancellery were a battallion of French. So Hitler and Eva were able to enjoy a day of marriage because of French soldiers, shameful.
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@HistoryHustle I just know the whole battle of Berlin took place for Hitler. Because everyone knew it was a lost cause at that point. The German armies were decimated, so there were Swedish and French still fighting. They still ended up in a bomb crater. But other wars don't end in surrender rather than "Kämpfe bis zum letzten Mann".
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Shouldn't the Germans have been disarmed? They were a defeated enemy. The high ranking should have been arrested.
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It was undoubtable a story from many. Like Albert Speer was constantly saying that he was the conscientious "good nazi", and even made up a story about how he had a plan to poison Hitler. Because he didn't want to be executed.
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