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Nazi card proves Dutch Prince Bernhard joined Hitler's party
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https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-67017311
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In 1996, a researcher at the Dutch institute for war studies (Niod) said he had found a copy of the card in a US university archive.
Gerard Aalders, who was widely criticised at the time for his revelation, said on social media that “Prince Bernhard lied to the bitter end about his Nazi past”.
He had admitted to being a prospective member of two Nazi organisations as a student for a time after 1933 - the Sturmabteilung security service and the Schutzstaffel (SS) - but he argued in 1971 that “at the start you had to take part a little in one way or another”, because if they had found out he was opposed, it would have been tricky to pass university exams.
Several political parties and Jewish groups called on caretaker Prime Minister Mark Rutte to launch an investigation.
Naomi Mestrum, of the Israel Information and Documentation Centre (Cidi), said that proof of the prince’s Nazi past added another “black page to a painful part of recent Dutch history”.
Mr Rutte said that while it was an awful development, previous research had made it quite convincingly clear that the prince had been a Nazi party member.
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