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It's Time for The Netherlands to Apologize
(Wall Street Journal) Abraham Cooper and Manfred Gerstenfeld - By now, almost all the European countries that were occupied by the Germans during World War II have admitted to their collaboration with the Nazi regime. Most have apologized. The one major exception is The Netherlands, the country within Western Europe with the highest percentage of Jewish citizens murdered during the Holocaust - 102,000 out of 140,000. Those who were deported to the death camps in Poland were arrested by Dutch policemen, transported by the Dutch railways and guarded by the Dutch military police. Most of these Jewish deportees came from families that had lived in The Netherlands for centuries. Rabbi Cooper is associate dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center. Mr. Gerstenfeld is chairman-emeritus of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs.