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TIL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henneicke_Column https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henneicke_Column > a group of Dutch Nazi collaborators [...] in Amsterdam, du
by Terr_ 1y ago
TIL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henneicke_Column https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henneicke_Column
> a group of Dutch Nazi collaborators [...] in Amsterdam, during the Nazi Germany occupation of the Netherlands in World War II. [...] The bounty paid to Henneicke Column members for each captured Jew was 7.50 guilders (equivalent to about US $4.75).
Adjusting for inflation that's ~$91, if any had a profit motive rather than an ideological one, perhaps they supplemented it by looting from victims...
- morkalork 1y agoEasy to say that now but during war and times of rationing, there are many desperate people..
- Terr_ 1y agoWhile the occupation was certainly affecting civilians, these events were 1943, before the famine at end of 1944. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_famine_of_1944%E2%80%931945 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_famine_of_1944%E2%80%931...