The Netherlands remained neutral during the First World War, but was nevertheles…
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Survey Articles (Regional)
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The Netherlands
By Samuël Kruizinga, Paul Moeyes, Wim Klinkert
Regional Thematic Articles
Regional Thematic
Domestic Politics and Neutrality (The Netherlands)
By Pauline Onderwater
When the First World War broke out, the Netherlands’ most important political pa…
Regional Thematic
Exile and Migration (The Netherlands)
By Marlou Schrover
About a million Belgian civilians fled to the Netherlands at the beginning of th…
Regional Thematic
Film/Cinema (The Netherlands)
By Klaas de Zwaan
Film did not undermine Dutch neutrality during the First World War, but Dutch ci…
Regional Thematic
Foreign Policy (The Netherlands)
By Maartje Abbenhuis
The Kingdom of the Netherlands upheld a foreign policy of strict neutrality duri…
Regional Thematic
Humanitarianism (The Netherlands)
By Leo van Bergen
During the First World War, the neutral Dutch were involved in humanitarian ende…
Regional Thematic
Intelligence and Espionage (The Netherlands)
By Wim Klinkert
From the first days of the war, the neutral Netherlands, because of its geograph…
Regional Thematic
Making Sense of the War (The Netherlands)
By Marjet Brolsma
This article deals with the collective narratives Dutch intellectuals drew upon …
Regional Thematic
Military and Strategy (The Netherlands)
By Wim Klinkert
Since the middle of the 19th century, armed neutrality had been the pillar of Du…
Regional Thematic
Wartime and Post-war Economies (The Netherlands)
By Hein A. M. Klemann
Mutual dependence between the Dutch economy and Western German industrial centre…
Regional Thematic
Wartime and Post-war Societies (The Netherlands)
By Conny Kristel
The Dutch were not just passive bystanders of the war. They reflected on the nat…
Encyclopedic Entries
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Beerenbrouck, Charles Ruijs de
By Paul Moeyes
Ruijs de Beerenbrouck was a Dutch Prime Minster who successfully dealt with the …
Entry
Borders (The Netherlands)
By Maartje Abbenhuis
The borders of the Netherlands were an important site of war experience for the …
Entry
Cort van der Linden, Pieter Wilhelm Adriaan
By Paul Moeyes
P.W.A. Cort van der Linden was the Dutch prime minister from 1913 to 1918. His c…
Entry
Feminist Pacifism
By Annika Wilmers
A minority section of the women’s movements opposed World War I and organized th…
Entry
High Voltage Fence (The Netherlands and Belgium)
By Alex Vanneste
In 1915 the Germans built an electric fence along the Belgian-Dutch border, cons…
Entry
Mata Hari
By Marianne Walle
Mata Hari was a famous Dutch female dancer, who spied in France for the German i…
Entry
Netherlands Overseas Trust (NOT)
By Samuël Kruizinga
During the First World War, the Netherlands Oversea Trust Company acted as a cle…
Entry
Neutrality
By Samuël Kruizinga
During the 19th century, neutrality evolved into a set of legal and political to…
Entry
Raemaekers, Louis
By Ariane de Ranitz
During the First World War, Dutch editorial cartoonist Louis Raemaekers was a fi…
Entry
Troelstra, Pieter Jelles
By Paul Moeyes
Troelstra was a charismatic socialist leader who overestimated his influence and…
Entry
Wilhelmina, Queen of the Netherlands
By Paul Moeyes
Queen Wilhelmina was by nature a forceful leader. The First World War showed tha…
See Also
Thematic
Espionage
By Emmanuel Debruyne
During the entire war, warring powers used the “secret war” to try to break the …
Thematic
International Law and the Laws of War
By Jean H. Quataert
The article examines international efforts to curb states’ war-making prerogativ…
Thematic
League of Nations
By Anita Ziegerhofer
The Treaty of Versailles was signed on 28 June 1919, the same day on which the L…
Thematic
Negotiating and Mediating Conduct of War
By Matthew Stibbe
Many issues surrounding the conduct of war in the years 1914-1918 were imperviou…
Thematic
Pacifism
By David S. Patterson
The idea of peace in total war may seem irrelevant, but pacifism, or peace activ…
Thematic
Refugees
By Peter Gatrell
This article addresses the scale of wartime population displacement in continent…
Thematic
Social Costs of War
By Kimberly A. Redding
This article explores how the anticipation, reality, and memory of sacrifice inf…
Thematic
Women War Reporters
By Stephanie Seul
Female war reporters from belligerent and neutral countries were present in the …
