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Toon Janssen
Jan 1111 min read
Dutch War Archive Online! Or Better Not? Who Betrayed Who?
How Too Few Chairs In Study Hall Frustrate WWII Trauma Processing by Toon Janssen, DWT Amsterdam correspondent If anyone thinks that...
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Toon Janssen
Nov 28, 202415 min read
Steady Metamorphosis Of Zwarte Piet In Old-Dutch Sinterklaas Celebration
Adults Throw Spanners Into The Works - by Toon Janssen DWT Amsterdam Correspondent Every year November, children in The Netherlands get...
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Toon Janssen
Oct 18, 202412 min read
Dutch Prime Minister Dick Schoof Faces Sword Of Damocles
Populist Geert Wilders — Dutch Version Of Trumpian Xenophobe — Spins A Yarn, Rockets Up The Polls... A Mad-Man’s Gamble? by Toon...
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Toon Janssen
Oct 6, 202411 min read
"Ludmilla," An Opera On The Porch Of Hell
Albert Konrad Gemmeker, The Man Who Smiled Jews Into Poland -by Toon Janssen Recently the libretto and music of the opera Ludmilla was...
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Toon Janssen
Jul 14, 202411 min read
The Split Life Of Prince Bernhard, From War Hero To Nazi Prince
Prince Consort Of The Netherlands, Prisoner Of His Own Myth Toon Janssen, Amsterdam correspondent Huizen is just another relatively small...
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Toon Janssen
Apr 29, 20247 min read
Open Wounds Hurt: Amsterdam Is Slowly Processing Second World War Trauma
Cinco De Mayo Means Something Different In Holland -by Toon Janssen, DWT correspondent, Amsterdam What do people abroad know about the...
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Toon Janssen
Apr 21, 20246 min read
Separate Worlds: Tweeting And The Negotiating Table— Dutch Shadow Cabinet Formation On Social Media
-by Toon Janssen Migration was one of the main topics in the November 2023 election campaigns in the Netherlands. The previous fourth...
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Toon Janssen
Feb 23, 20247 min read
Muzzled: The Hague On An IV-Drip
Dutch Politics Grows ‘Funnier’ By The Day -by Toon Janssen DWT Amsterdam Correspondant The Netherlands was recently confronted with two...
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Howie Klein
Dec 9, 20235 min read
I Know I Should Stop Calling Them MAGAts... They're Our Brothers And Sisters
Trump Supporters Don't Want To Be Replaced Or Dehumanized My friend Adam is a Zionist— all in— and he likes arguing about it. The things...
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Toon Janssen
Dec 2, 20239 min read
Hard Times For Peroxide Blonde (Not Trump-- Another Self-Absorbed Xenophobe, This One In Holland)
Aftermath of recent Dutch elections won by Skipper Wilders -by Toon Janssen Results of November 23 snap elections in The Netherlands were...
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Howie Klein
Nov 25, 20233 min read
Geert Wilders, A Fascist, Just Came In First In Nice Mild Holland
Dutch elections were due in 2025, but… there was a snap election Wednesday because Mark Rutte’s government collapsed and resigned in...
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Howie Klein
Mar 20, 20236 min read
There Were Elections In Holland Last Week-- And The County's Politics Was Turned On Its Head
Last night after dinner, Roland shaved my head. We met when he was around 18. He just turned 50 this month. He asked me how I feel about...
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Howie Klein
Dec 5, 202111 min read
Far Right = Anti-Vaxx = Nihilism
As of yesterday, the U.S. had finally reached the 60% mark-- that's 60% of all U.S. residents fully vaccinated. The number varies widely,...
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