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Mick van Wely wrote that his Dutch grandfather worked as an optician for the resistance in Leiden and took photos for forged documents. According to him, his father grew up with a strong aversion to Germans. When, as a five-year-old, he received an apple from a German soldier, he thanked him with a curse word for Germans, Van Wely said. His Hungarian mother, he said, grew up under communism, which he described as just as bad as fascism. Van Wely wrote that he had been raised at home with love for and respect for freedom. This, he said, explained why he sometimes reacted angrily when he saw that the carefully built Western lead and achievements, which had long been taken for granted, were coming under heavy pressure and were slowly being rolled back. #vrijheid #geschiedenis #verzet (translated)

Rein Bijlsma urged readers to remember the images. He wrote that people could now experience for themselves what it was like to witness the rise of Nazism and the growing hatred of Jews in the 1930s, and stated that this was now happening on the streets, in squares, at stations, and in the media. According to him, it seemed that no one in power was willing to do anything about it, and society had once again capitulated. #geschiedenis #antisemitisme #maatschappij (translated)

The predominantly Kurdish Diyarbakir in Turkey, which was once the scene of heavy fighting, is now attracting more and more tourists due to an improved security situation and hope for peace, placing the region back on the map as a destination rich in culture and history. #Diyarbakir #Turkije #Toerisme (translated)

Denkewel wrote that the Sea Battle at Camperduin was commemorated in 1797, a battle between the Batavian Republic and Great Britain. According to the author, the British, under Admiral Duncan, attacked the Dutch led by Vice Admiral De Winter with an assault from three columns and achieved a convincing victory. https://t.co/prWiacW2JA #Geschiedenis #BataafseRepubliek #ZeeseSlag (translated)

DenkJewel wrote that today the Battle of Karbala from 680 was commemorated. According to him, the Umayyads under Caliph Yazid I faced the Hashemite under Muhammad's grandson Hussein ibn Ali. Yazid won the battle and Hussein was beheaded, he wrote. DenkJewel also referred to the battle as the definitive separation between Sunni and Shia. https://t.co/hVAKjIcZaV #Karbala #Geschiedenis #Soennisme (translated)

Jan Gajentaan wrote about a photo of General De Gaulle with his daughter Anne, who he claimed had Down syndrome and to whom her father was very attached. Anne passed away in 1948 at the age of 20 after bronchitis. According to Gajentaan, De Gaulle always carried a photo of her with him; in 1970, during an attack, a bullet was said to have ricocheted off the photo frame. https://t.co/pyAi1IVjmY #GeneraalDeGaulle #Downsyndroom #Geschiedenis (translated)

Denkewel commemorated the Fall of Antwerp in 1914. He wrote that the Schlieffen Plan became bogged down, after which the British expeditionary force and Antwerp came into view. Heavy artillery, including the Dicke Bertha, forced the Belgians into a strategic retreat, according to him. https://t.co/Js8wFhTTfH #ValVanAntwerpen #geschiedenis #België (translated)

In his book Gender Identity. The Career of A Category, sociologist Rogers Brubaker offers an impartial and analytical history of the concept of gender identity and examines the social successes and the intense backlash it brings with it. #Genderidentiteit #Sociologie #Controverses (translated)

The documents found with Hanning are intended to inform, among other things, ministers. The direct damage seems to be manageable, says Wolfgang Krieger, emeritus professor of Contemporary History at the University of Marburg in Germany. #spionageschandaal #BND #vertrouwen (translated)

Marieke Hoogwout wrote that fascists were openly walking through the streets again, this time with a fashionable political scarf and a drummer instead of combat boots. According to her, the Netherlands had learned nothing eighty years later. #Fascisme #Nederland #geschiedenis (translated)