An 88-year-old white supremacist with a rifle walked into the Holocaust Museum, one of the capital’s most-visited sites, on Wednesday afternoon and began shooting, fatally wounding a security guard and sending tourists scrambling before he himself was shot, the authorities said.
A Roundup of the Jews, Amsterdam, from Errol Morris’ “Bamboozling Ourselves.” Today’s installment, part six, looks at the collaboration of the Dutch in World War II. Here’s the caption:
A photo of a roundup (razzia) of Jews was made by Jack Dudok van Heel. Dudok van Heel was in contact with Fritz Kahlenberg in the group ‘The Hidden Camera.’ On a sunny spring day he photographed a calm roundup, as calm as silent churchgoers strolling to Mass on a sunny Sunday morning. The photograph was taken from the window of his in-laws’ house on the corner of the Albrecht Durerstraat and the Euterpestraat.
Note the armed Nazi in front (by the tree) and the Gentiles on the sidewalk looking as if they’re out for a stroll. Over 70% of Dutch Jews were rounded up on sunny afternoons like this and sent on trains headed east to the death camps (that’s three times the rate in France or Italy).
