Five Brothers and a War

1943 Summary

The Landelijke Organisatie (L.O.) holds first secret “swap meet” (for ration stamps, coupons and people in search for a hiding place) at the Zuiderkerk in Zwolle. The Red Army launches its first massive attack.

Jan 01, 1943

Jan 04

Resistance moves against a civil registry at Wageningen.

Jan 08

Friesland forms a provincial LO.

Nazis give police judicial powers, “ politiestandrecht .”

Jan 11

Jan 14

Allied conference at Casablanca demands unconditional surrender of Axis.

Jan 15

Germans open concentration camp at Vught. Sauckel demands 22,000 steel laborers and 78,000 general workers for German war effort.

Prinses Margriet born in Ottawa, Canada.

Jan 19

Jan 21

Milk and meat rations reduced.

Jan 26

Germans deport 1,200 Jews from Apeldoorn.

Jan 30

Dutch Nazi party secretariat becomes part of civil government. Attack on German officer in Haarlem, over 100 people randomly arrested, 10 executed. First issue of illegal paper Trouw appears in Meppel.

Feb 01

Attempt on life of high police official Feitsma.

Feb 03

Germans at Stalingrad surrender.

Feb 04

Dutch prime minister-in-exile Gerbrandy urges civil service to resist German rule more vigorously. Commander of Dutch Volunteer Legion, General Seyffardt, killed by resistance group CS VI. Round-up of students in Amsterdam, Utrecht, Delft and Wageningen, many go in hiding. Universities closed. Rev. J. Overduin arrested by SD after fiery sermon against Nazi intrusion in Christian education. High-level bureaucrat Reydon shot (dies of injuries in August). More round-ups of teenage boys.

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Feb 10

Amsterdam's GAB put to the torch. Jewish orphans deported.

Feb 14

Germans vacate Rostov.

Feb 16

Kharkov back in Russian control.

Feb 17

Churches sent Seyß-Inquart letter of protest regarding persecution of fellow citizens, lawlessness and drive for Nazification of society. The following Sunday, letter was read in every Dutch church.

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