Victims and Perpetrators: Dutch Shoah, 1933/45 and beyond

By Hans Derks.

In this book, historian Hans Derks explains how more than 75% of the Jewish population was arrested, deported or murdered in concentration camps during the Shoah in the Netherlands by looking closely at the social and religious characteristics of Dutch society. He also unveils the extensive collaboration of the country’s state-bureaucracy with the German authorities. This uniquely perpetratororiented book about the Dutch Shoah offers shocking conclusions about the persistent contribution of Dutch scholars to racist ideologies and eugenic measures aimed at creating a new, racially pure Dutch society under an authoritarian leadership.

Hans Derks is a sociologist and historian from Amsterdam. He lectures and publishes widely on historical and sociological subjects, such as his critical study History of the Opium Problem: The Assault on the East, ca. 1600–1950 (2012).

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