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Spirit of Resistance : Dutch Clandestine Literature During the Nazi Occupation by Jeroen Dewulf is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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T HE GERMAN INVASION OF THE NETHERLANDS on 10 May 1940 was not only a tragedy for the Dutch people; it was also a tragedy for Dutch literature. In just a few weeks the intellectual leaders of an entire generation would disappear. In the chaos of the battle of Rotterdam, Doeke Zijlstra, editor-in-chief of the publishing house Nijgh & Van Ditmar, was killed by a stray bullet. Publisher Robert Leopold, who feared German revenge for his publication of Hermann Rauschning’s critical work Gespräche mit Hitler (Conversations with Hitler, 1939), shot himself. The promising Jewish writer Jacob Hiegentlich took poison and died. The young poet Tom de Bruin was accidentally shot by a nervous Dutch sentry who mistook him for a German parachutist. Jo Otten, author of neo-Romantic prose, died from a stray bomb during the assault on The Hague. Hendrik Marsman, the most celebrated Dutch poet of his time, tried to escape but the ship that would have taken him to England exploded and he drowned. By then two of the most prominent essayists, Edgar du Perron and Mennoter Braak, had already died; du Perron collapsed from a heart attack during the
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- Author
- Jeroen Dewulf
- Publisher
- Camden House (NY)
- Published
- 2010
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781571134936
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- History, Literary Fiction, Political Science
- Updated
- 2026-03-24
