De illegalen. Illegaliteit in Twente & het aangrenzende Salland 1940-1945.

The military occupation of the Netherlands by German army units in the early days of May, 1940, was accompanied by a political change of power. From that time on, new, foreign rulers attempted to involve the population of the occupied territory in achieving their political aims. The greater part of the population took an ever growing aversion to their principal aims, viz. the elimination of the Jews from Dutch society, the nazification of the population by 'levelling' the social institutions, and the placing of the Dutch industrial production in the service of the German war economy. In this dissertation we have attempted to show who these resistance workers were, and what significance their resistance workers were, and what significance their resistance activities had. By giving a detailed description of their social background we have tried to arrive at realistic statements about the relation between their social status and the fact that it was actually they who went underground. ... Zie: Summary