9.3.4 The Netherlands during WW2 - TEACH -

9. The Time of World Wars
9.3.4. the Netherlands during WW2

1 / 26
next
Slide 1: Slide
HistoryMiddelbare schoolhavoLeerjaar 3

This lesson contains 26 slides, with interactive quiz, text slides and 3 videos.

Items in this lesson

9. The Time of World Wars
9.3.4. the Netherlands during WW2

Slide 1 - Slide

Look around the classroom....
  • ?
  • Where's Baby Yoda?

Slide 2 - Slide

people in this lesson
Winkelman
general
Netherlands
Mussert
leader NSB
Netherlands
Seyss-Inquart
Nazi governor of NL
Germany
Wilhelmina
queen
Netherlands
Anne Frank
Jewish girl
Netherlands

Slide 3 - Slide

the bombing of Rotterdam, May 14th, 1940. When the Germans threatened to bomb other Dutch cities like Amsterdam, The Hague and Utrecht, the Dutch government decided to capitulate (surrender) to avoid further loss of lives and further destruction.
German troops crossing the Berlage Bridge into Amsterdam, May 15th, 1940.
Notice several Dutch bystanders giving the Nazi salute to the German soldiers.

Slide 4 - Slide

The man in charge of ruling the Netherlands: Seyss Inquart, an Austrian Nazi. Here he inspects the german troops in the Binnenhof in The Hague.
Soon the Dutch people nicknamed Seys Inquart as 6 1/4 (Zes-en-een-kwart)
Anton Mussert, leader of the Dutch Nazi party, the NSB (Nationaal Socialistische Beweging) giving a speech to his followers in the 1930s.
Watch the short video about this place in the next slide.

Slide 5 - Slide

Slide 6 - Slide

German propaganda poster used to attract volunteers for working in German factories
Not everybody was eager to work in Germany...

Slide 7 - Slide

American aircraft carrier during the Battle of Midway
Japanese ZERO attack bomber used to drop torpedoes on US warships

Slide 8 - Slide

Slide 9 - Link

Razzia on the Waterlooplein, February 1941. 425 Jewish men are arrested by force. This agressive German action leads to the first (and only) open Dutch resistance against the Germans: the February strike
Many people listened secretly to the radio.
On July 28, 1940, queen Wilhelmina opened  the first broadcast of Radio Oranje. The program grew into "De stem van strijdend Nederland".

Slide 10 - Slide

from London, queen Wilhelmina speaks to the Dutch people  on Radio Oranje

Slide 11 - Slide

Collaboration

Slide 12 - Slide

Resistance

Slide 13 - Slide

V = VICTORY
But for whom?
The British prime minister Winston Churchill often gave the V-sign with his fingers, indicating that Britain and the Allies would be victorious.
When the Dutch people began to use Churchill's  V-sign as a symbol of resistance, the Germans were not amused.

Slide 14 - Slide

The Germans came up with the plan to use the V-sign as a symbol for German victory.

Slide 15 - Slide

Many Dutch made jokes about this German idea....
OZO
Oranje Zal Overwinnen
..and what did Beethoven and morse code have to do with all this? 
Next slide ..._

Slide 16 - Slide

Slide 17 - Video

Slide 18 - Slide

Eindhoven, Sept 18, 1944. Allied tanks drive along Stratum's Eind

Slide 19 - Slide

The dancing crowd at the Markt in Eindhoven, during the liberation party on 18 September 1944
click here for more pictures of the liberation of Eindhoven. Maybe you see your own street.
click here
Eindhovens Dagblad article

Slide 20 - Slide

During the hunger winter many people, including children, tried to scrape something they could eat from waste bins

Slide 21 - Slide

Slide 22 - Video

Slide 23 - Slide

Write down one question about something in this lesson that you still don't fully understand.

Slide 24 - Open question

congratulations
congratulations

Slide 25 - Slide

Slide 26 - Video