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Nationaal Militair Museum 2015 – Indië moet vrij!

In the Netherlands the Japanese occupation of the Dutch East Indies was seen in the same light as the German occupation of the Netherlands itself. The Indonesian nationalists who collaborated with the Japanese were regarded as Quislings. Once Japan was defeated, the Dutch East Indies had to be liberated according to the Dutch. The Indonesian nationalists thought differently: Soekarno declared independence in 1945. It took until 1949 for the Netherlands to accept it.

The Dutch National Military Museum was opened in 2014. It is the combination of the old Army Museum and the old Militairy Aviation Museum. *** Faut le voyage if you like army stuff.
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Michiel 2005 said:

Germany tried to stir up trouble in the back garden of Britain and France, by forming ties with nationalist movements in Brittany, Ireland and Flanders. First the German empire and later the Nazis formed alliances with muslim leaders in the hope that they could cause a jihad in the British Empire. The muslim leaders gambled that they could create a muslim state free of Jews with the aid of the Germans.

Japan tried similar things, by supporting nationalist movements in Asian countries which were colonies of Western powers. Of course they had no real intention of giving these countries true independence, they just used them for the Japanese war effort. For instance during the construction of the Birma railroad, about 15,000 Western prisoner of war died, but about 100,000 Thay and Indonesian workers died.
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