HR lecturer finds WW II capitulation letter
Gepubliceerd: 20 April 2016 • Leestijd: 0 minuten en 33 seconden • English Dit artikel is meer dan een jaar oud.This is a major news item: the recently found document stating the German capitulation demands. Historian and HR lecturer, Gerard Groeneveld, made the find.
Groeneveld is a coordinator with the honours programme at Rotterdam Business School. As a historian, he is specialised in the collaboration, propaganda and photography of the Second World War. He has published on German amateur photography during the occupation, the posthumous confessions of Mussert and Dutch SS war journalists.
Last Thursday his latest book was released: Rotterdam frontstad [city on the front]. Here Groeneveld describes in detail what occurred in Rotterdam between 10 and 14 May 1940. He has included new sources and images of the ‘May days’. The most extraordinary is the document he found in a German war diary, which he purchased from an Internet auction site. Inside the cover he stumbled upon the handwritten paper on which the German capitulation demands (to which The Netherlands had to consent) were drawn up.
Rotterdam frontstad, 10-14 mei 1940, Gerard Groeneveld, Vantilt Publishers
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