Dutch offer first apology for World War II persecution of Jews

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Records show that only 38,000 of the 140,000 Jews who lived in the Netherlands survived World War II but no government apology has been offered for the role the authorities played.

REMEMBRANCE. Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte takes part in a wreath laying ceremony at the Mirror Memorial "Auschwitz Never Again" during the National Holocaust Remembrance day on January 27, 2019, in Amsterdam. Photo by Remko de Waal/ANP/AFP

He was giving an address in Amsterdam in memory of victims of the Holocaust on the eve of the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz. In 2000, then prime minister Wim Kok apologised for the"icy welcome" Nazi camp survivors received on their return to the Netherlands, which the Nazis occupied from 1940-1945."Too many civil servants carried out the orders of the occupiers.

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