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Louis de Jong: Writing the History of Occupied Europe

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 September 2005

BOB MOORE
Affiliation:
Department of History, University of Sheffield, 387 Glossop Road, Sheffield S10 2TN, UK. r.moore@sheffield.oc.uk.

Abstract

Louis de Jong, who died on 15 March 2005, held a unique position as the official historian for the Netherlands during the Second World War. As head of the Rijksinstituut voor Oorlogsdocumentatie (RIOD), de Jong effectively came to dictate the research agenda on his country’s recent history for more than forty years after the conflict was over. For the Dutch, his name was synonymous not only with RIOD but also with the history of the German occupation from May 1940 to the final liberation in May 1945.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Cambridge University Press 2005

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