On Mar 3, 1:44 pm, David Tenner wrote:
> Daniel Titley wrote innews:311bd253-b4cd-4bd1-99d=
1-d5188ee5f392@g28g2000yqh.googlegroups.com:
>
> > The Netherlands was one of the very first countries to grant full
> > diplomatic recognition to the U.S. Since then, the two countries have
> > enjoyed 230 years of peaceful co-existence.
>
> > That=92s just boring! How can we get Americans and Dutchmen to kill eac=
h
> > other?
>
> Would a declaration of war by a Nazi puppet government count?
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anton_Musserthttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Me=
inoud_Rost_van_Tonningen
>
> --
> David Tenner
> dten...@ameritech.net
Some background.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Netherlands
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_government_in_exile
It is hard to say if there might have been any effects
or what they might have been if Hitler had initially
decided to bypass the Netherlands and go through
Belgium only. |
