The WA - the Paramilitary Wing of the Dutch National Socialist Movement (NSB)

In the Netherlands there was the WA: de Weerbaarheidsafdeling (Resilience Department) - the paramilitary wing of the National Socialist Movement (Nationaal-Socialistische Beweging; NSB) founded by Anton Mussert. The WA men were the Dutch blackshirts who were the Dutch equivalent of the German SA (Sturmabteilung).
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- De NSB. Ontstaan en opkomst van de Nationaal-Socialistische Beweging, 1931-1935 (Robin te Slaa & Edwin Klijn).
- De Zwarte Kameraden. Een geïllustreerde geschiedenis van de N.S.B. (J. Zwaan).
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De algemeen commandant der WA Zondervan opent het nieuwe Vendelkwartier te Winschoten
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Herbenoeming Zondervan tot commandant van de WA
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Vertrek van het eerste bataljon van het vrijwillig WA regiment naar het oostfront
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[@HistoryHustle]

NSB: kzbin.info/www/bejne/aIO4gX1mfM-oldU DUTCH RESISTANCE: kzbin.info/www/bejne/q2qniIGFna1-lck DUTCH WAFFEN-SS VOLUNTEERS: kzbin.info/www/bejne/mILPd2OflpJ0eKM

[@milankrishna2550]

I am a very big fan of yours. Can you do a video on Azad Hind Fauj?

[@terrygp1]

Always interesting video`s professor. I visited the Netherlands in 2015, one of my great uncles was severely wounded there fighting to liberate The Netherlands. The Dutch never forget the Canadians, people were telling us the best restaurants to visit. Buying us beers because we were Canadians. Everyone was so kind. I will never forget them. Thanks for all your great videos....

[@HistoryHustle]

Great to read, Terry. Thank you for replying.

[@nikkibaugher2427]

Professor, interesting and challenging lecture. As usual. It is hard to look into the past through today's eyes. One must listen and accept the facts. Embrace them. It is "our" past.

[@HistoryHustle]

Thanks 👌

[@thanos_6.0]

Germany and Italy: Stop copying our homework! NSB: I am not copying your homework. The homework:

[@HistoryHustle]

lol

[@justimagineihaveaname.2674]

I love your videos. One day you'll reach one million.

[@HistoryHustle]

Just imagine... Thanks. And feel free to share of course :)

[@mikehydropneumatic2583]

Again an interesting video. I am Dutch but was never aware of the WA.

[@HistoryHustle]

Thanks for replying as always 👍

[@Robert--cm2nf]

Onder welke steen heb je gezeten dan op school?

[@mikecain6947]

It is great the you give an unbiased history of your own country even when it is negative.

[@HistoryHustle]

Thanks Mike 👍

[@presenttomato1060]

I started watching your channel a long, long time ago. I stopped for awhile and forgot about your channel but I recently remembered your channel existed, but I couldn't remember the name. I went through 20 minutes just looking and I've finally found this great channel again! Great to see that videos are still of very high quality and are interesting.

[@HistoryHustle]

Great you found the channel again! Welcome again. Feel free to press the bell button so you stay updated when future content comes out.

[@xvsj5833]

Excellent Historically Research Stephon I enjoy your channel 👍

[@HistoryHustle]

Thank you, , Jesse!

[@tonnywildweasel8138]

',,, where they used a ploertendoder.." 😁 Good vid again, Stefan! Greets, T.

[@HistoryHustle]

👍👍👍

[@Dietslander]

Could you do a video about the Fasist Zwartfront group from the netherlands by arnold meijer

[@HistoryHustle]

Very niche. Perhaps in the future some day.

[@ProfessorBarrancoIII]

nice video! can you do a video about national union of Greece? I can give you much information and pictures.

[@HistoryHustle]

Thanks for your reply. Sorry to say but for now Greece is not yet on my list.

[@ProfessorBarrancoIII]

@@HistoryHustle no problem there are many intersting topics to talk about

[@rokadaprliinnysystemyaczno4761]

Don't know why, but the fascist movements are always both fascinating and interesting and it's nice to hear how it worked out in Holland. Hopefully one day you might do a film on the Polish Waffen SS - a very little known history....

[@coling3957]

were they perhaps Germans from former-German territory? the Nazis divided up Poland and annexed large parts of "ethnically German" territory in 1939.

[@JohnSmith-zs9vr]

What Polish Waffen SS? There had never been any polish unit SS. There were some Poles in Wehrmacht, but only those who had been forcefully conscripted: Silesians and Masurians.

[@HistoryHustle]

Dunno about Polish Waffen-SS myself...

[@coling3957]

@@HistoryHustle seems iffy to me.. there were a couple of Palestinian Brigades on the British side, one of which became the Jewish Brigade. an interesting tale? after ww2 most of them found their way into the IDF providing a cadre of veterans

[@johnkilmartin5101]

I think it's how you define Polish. If you define it as either a citizen of the Second Polish Republic or someone born within its borders then yes there were definitely 'Poles' in the SS. If you were to define Pole either ethnically or linguistically then probably not. As regarding Poles in the Heer, the Polish formations in First Canadian Army were nearly always at full strength as right after a battle they would scour the POW cages for Poles. Something like a 90% success rate in recruiting. I haven't read anything on Polish formations in 8th Army doing the same.

[@thekaiser6842]

I love finding channels like this when they’re at the point where they know their niche and are able to produce good quality content but aren’t so popular that they sell out and have their channels bombarded with ads.

[@HistoryHustle]

Many thanks, Kaiser. Welcome to this channel.

[@jeroenburlage8906]

ja bedankt weer , jij ook een fijne dag

[@HistoryHustle]

Dank, Jeroen!

[@luxembourgishempire2826]

Interesting video Stefan! Keep them coming! 🙂👍

[@HistoryHustle]

🙂👍

[@TheSpritz0]

STEFAN- THANK YOU for providing us with this amazing research, I always wanted to know more about the W.A. but very little is out there- but you are the BEST researcher!!! P.S. You are the ONLY one who can make a video on the mysterious MILICE FRANCAIS, their "youth wing" the Avant-Garde, and the Milice's armed forces which were officially known as the Franc-Garde!!! There is really nothing good on them on KZbin (only in French) with no "CC" language translation...

[@HistoryHustle]

Thanks for your enthusiastic reply. Hope to cover the Milice in the future some day.

[@TheSpritz0]

@@HistoryHustle Excellent my friend, and thanks again for this incredible W.A. video and learning experience!! Just wish I had a history teacher like you back in High School, would have made my Military Combat experience in Bosnia and Kosovo a little more understandable at the time!!

[@andrewsteele7663]

Thanks Stefan, excellent article and as always I really enjoyed it. I had no idea of this part of the history of the pre war years in your country. Cheers

[@HistoryHustle]

Thanks Andrew 👌

[@mikewest5529]

Ohh I can’t wait for the TEST!! Another great production!!

[@HistoryHustle]

👌👌👌

[@BunkersBPV]

Weer erg interessant, goed uitgelegd met mooie beelden van toen.

[@HistoryHustle]

Dank!

[@gibraltersteamboatco888]

Thanks for another great video.BZ Will you be making another on the post war fate of these bastions of moral fibre ?

[@HistoryHustle]

Yes but expect after Summer.

[@jameskennedy721]

Dont hold your breath . That part upsets him so .

[@kylecorey88]

I'd really like a video on the Hungarian arrow cross party . There isn't a single documentary I can find that's done anymore than a brief introduction on them and that's it. These offshoot party's like this one you did in the video I find very interesting. ,

[@HistoryHustle]

In the future for sure 👍

[@mammuchan8923]

“Resilience” is an interesting euphemism - makes it sound very benign 😅

[@HistoryHustle]

Funny, it Dutch it also sounds like that.

[@mammuchan8923]

@@HistoryHustle interestingly in Afrikaans it’s “veerkragtigheid” which I looked up out of curiosity. Usually Dutch and Afrikaans are quite similar

[@HistoryHustle]

Interesting! In Dutch you would write "veerkrachtigheid" but that's an old word I haven't heard in a while 😅

[@mammuchan8923]

@@HistoryHustle wonderful, we are always learning new things, love it, have a great day further 😀

[@HistoryHustle]

You too 👍

[@nickpapagiorgio5056]

Great video as always professor Stefan! I was wondering if you knew if at 2:51 in this video it looks like the W.A. Members were marching down the Maliebaan in Utrecht? It kind of resembles it with how unusually wide it is for a Dutch street and also having those trademark grass islands with rows of trees on each side separating different sections of the street and sidewalks/bike paths. Anyways thanks for another great video!

[@HistoryHustle]

Very sharp Nick, it's the Maliebaan in the video! Cheers!

[@nickpapagiorgio5056]

@@HistoryHustle thank you professor! Plus it makes for an interesting coincidence since you had mentioned in a previous video that during the occupation this was a very German area Even though that was 7-8 years later.

[@marclayne9261]

Great channel...

[@HistoryHustle]

👍

[@kingerikthegreatest.ofall.7860]

Interesting to hear about this subject . Have you watched the film soldier of orange? It stars rutger hauer.

[@HistoryHustle]

Thanks and yes, I've seen the film. Find it very dated now, but hey, it's a classic.

[@peterIV88]

Awesome and very interesting i find the stuff of the Netherlands in ww2 as a fellow Dutchman

[@HistoryHustle]

🇳🇱👍

[@mirola73]

Gewoon lekker in het Nederlands doen dan.

[@jamie7026]

Very Good video, with some great original Footage, It reminds me of the Black shirts BUF the UK who also had there Uniforms Banned. (1936) Its sad how history is mirrored from place to place, and time after time, So its good to learn the lessons, history teaches, so keep up the good work.

[@HistoryHustle]

Thanks, Jamie! It's true, history was mirrored from place to place.

[@marcelgroen6256]

Stefan, thanks again for sharing. What surprised me in your opening was the name of the other founder of the NSB, Cornelis van Geelkerken. I didn't know much about him, but I was surprised he wasn't sentenced to death and read up on the subject. A black page from our history. En jij ook een fijne dag.

[@HistoryHustle]

Bedankt! Jij ook een fijne dag :)

[@66kbm]

Fijn Dag ook. Some very interesting information there. Thanks for the research, thanks for the video. Is it possible to do a "Then and Now" Utrecht 1943 showing buildings/places etc that were utilised by the NSB? Even the Germans? I know the Malibaan had thier HQ. So much to ask for i know. Just keep it coming and we will watch it.

[@HistoryHustle]

Would be an interesting photo series one day. I did cover some of it which can be found in the community tab and the instagram.

[@tonycavanagh1929]

Can you do a series on the Dutch military that fought for the allies. Europe as well as the far east.

[@HistoryHustle]

In the future for sure!

[@caslinden1373]

Weer een heel interessante video man 🇳🇱🇳🇱👍

[@HistoryHustle]

Bedankt, Cas 👍

[@marcoskehl]

Dank je! Thank you! Obrigado! 🇧🇷

[@HistoryHustle]

Cheers 👍

[@heipuntnl]

Duidelijk. Dankje.

[@HistoryHustle]

👍

[@robertblake9892]

Speer quotes Hitler as dismissing Quisling and Mussert as "copyists".

[@HistoryHustle]

I understand.

[@coling3957]

no wonder they abbreviated it to WA ... some of the letters of the name fell off the side of my monitor...

[@HistoryHustle]

Lol. In English you write words reperately. In Dutch it becomes one word. That makes Dutch (and German words) so long.

[@coling3957]

@@HistoryHustle sign-writers must love this :D

[@pawelski7536]

Will you cover Prince Bernhard?

[@HistoryHustle]

Not anytime soon.

[@karlcraft2496]

Nice emblem they go there

[@WarblesOnALot]

G'day, Putting Lipstick Onto a Pig...; Doesn't make Kissing the Feral Sow Any more Appealing....! A Dutch Nazi with a Pretty Flag is Still a (bloody) NAZI...! Just(ifiably ?) sayin. Such is life, Have a good one... Stay safe. ;-p Ciao !

[@niepowaznyczlowiek]

@@WarblesOnALot wtf

[@HistoryHustle]

The comments get weirder by the day.

[@noobtubephails]

@@HistoryHustle Signs of succes.

[@niepowaznyczlowiek]

@@HistoryHustle Indeed they do

[@borkokostic4388]

Bravo. I learn in school that Germans occupy Holland. In fact, Wermacht entered in Holland. Even "Official" history said the Holland were on Allies and they have strong resistance movement. In fact they had en.wikipedia.org/wiki/34th_SS_Volunteer_Grenadier_Division_Landstorm_Nederland Dutch Nazis fought on Russian Front.

[@HistoryHustle]

True, I actually created a series about Dutch Waffen-SS: kzbin.info/www/bejne/mILPd2OflpJ0eKM

[@borkokostic4388]

@@HistoryHustle Bravo 2.0.

[@constantcomment1954]

Please do the history of Poland.

[@HistoryHustle]

Here's a playlist, there is already much on Polis history on this channel: kzbin.info/aero/PL_bcNuRxKtpEfn--0swrIJs71HTVd2W4k

[@mamad_atofi8536]

Hello teacher....can you make a vedio about Trotsky....who was he?

[@HistoryHustle]

perhaps in the future, but there is much of him on YT already

[@lcy5169]

Do a work about Russian Fascist Party which were in Manchuria(Russians-in-exile) please!

[@HistoryHustle]

Perhaps in the future.

[@prilep5]

It looks you are binge worthy dude.

[@HistoryHustle]

Cheers!

[@ShubhamMishrabro]

I want to ask one thing why did national socialism movement grew in non german countries? To counter communism or something else

[@HistoryHustle]

Good question. It was basically because of the dissatisfaction after WW1 and the later hardship after 1929 because of the Great Depression.

[@julianshepherd2038]

The democratic parties opposed communism. You didn't have to be a fascist

[@rickglorie]

@@julianshepherd2038 it was seen as a viable third way, because people hadn't yet lived through the horrors it entailed. But even then most parties were marginailzed until german take over.

[@panglossianaeolist3704]

Swamp Germans & Mountain Dutch :) ! How many in that camp were Volksdeutsch ? Sort of like the Silesian Volksdeutsch - loyal to Mutterland, maybe.

[@HistoryHustle]

Can't tell.

[@Gustavogukpa]

"The first time I mention communists doing something good." Legend

[@HistoryHustle]

😎

[@eugenius6519]

I'm starting to see a pattern of fascist paramilitary organisations eventually being tossed to the side by their party, in favour of different organizations.

[@HistoryHustle]

Sharp observation yes.

[@eleanorkett1129]

I hope you have a presentation about what happened to these Nazi goons after the war.

[@HistoryHustle]

In the future for sure!

[@frankberkemeier]

Hier wat achtergrond over Boksclub Olympia, Joodse boksers die het opnamen tegen de NSB'ers www.joodsamsterdam.nl/boksen-en-worstelen/

[@HistoryHustle]

Heel interessant, bedankt voor het delen!

[@howelltaylor6774]

I wonder if "History Hustle" will make a video on dutch communist goons?

[@HistoryHustle]

There weren't much.

[@Page-Hendryx]

Did your parents watch Van Oekel's Discohoek?

[@HistoryHustle]

?

[@rickglorie]

That was a not very mainstream absurd comedy show from the seventies.

[@Page-Hendryx]

@@HistoryHustle Sorry - just a random thought, albeit non history-related.

[@SN-xk2rl]

For a Dutch person to say "this is the first time I've said anything good about the Communists tells me you have yet to talk about Anton Pannekoek. Anton Pannekoek was both a leading astronomer at Amsterdam University but also a leading Marxist and socialist of early 20th century "council communism" a version of Marxist revolutionary socialism that retains its democratic commitments and thus is/was an ardent opponent of so-called "Leninism" with its fetishism of the party, supplanting the democracy of the workers with the substitution of the party of putatively professional revolutionaries. This might have been necessary in backwards Russia where even literacy rates were appallingly low, but in W. Europe at that time, and now in probably 1/3rd or even 1/2 of the planet, literacy, education, and organization are sufficiently developed that the workers themselves do NOT need a substitute party to lead them into socialism, but instead, should work in their own party, in their own union, in their own social movement and their own workplace councils to advance the project of collective, democratic, transparent planning of the economy for use in the intesests of the majority (the working class) and against the interests of the parasites that now control us (the owners of net financial assets that produce incomes to their owners, even as those owners contribute zero useful labor to the production of the goods/services that make our lives what they are. The wiki on Pannekoek is decent: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonie_Pannekoek And you can read Pannekoek's critique of Leninism here: www.marxists.org/archive/pannekoe/1938/lenin/

[@HistoryHustle]

Interesting..thanks for sharing. Won't make a video about this man though.

[@Larkinchance]

Oh no! Bleach on my glorious black uniform! You communists will pay!!

[@HistoryHustle]

yup

[@coreylevine3856]

That were before June 22 when the Nazi attacked the Soviet Union

[@HistoryHustle]

Actually, some WA didn't fight on the Eastern Front.

[@jameskennedy721]

Yes they existed . They were also hunted down like dogs in the spring of 1945 and beaten to death by mobs .

[@HistoryHustle]

In the Netherlands these types of revenge didn't occur en masse. Lynching mostly happened in France.

[@johnthomson6507]

Yes two as divisions. Although the dutch suffered terribly at the end of the war over a hundred thousand dutch jews were murdered by the nazis and 120000 starved to death in the hunger winter of 44-45. Leon degrel the Walloon and fascist led his legion to the east and the Belgian people didn't suffer the privations of the dutch. Incidentally senior Labour members the mi!libands Dave and ed are the grandchildren of Belgian jews who had to flee from the nazis. One was the leader of the main English opposition party.

[@HistoryHustle]

Much more stuff I hope to cover in the future.

[@bryancomlor1435]

I don't see anything wrong with beating communists.

[@HistoryHustle]

Try so see the whole picture instead of nitpicking one point to write a attention seeking comment.

[@jayzandstra1830]

granpappie was part of the WA. not going to be ashamed from that honestly.

[@HistoryHustle]

You ever met him? And can you share more of his story and his experiences? How did he reflect on the war. Love to know.

[@antorseax9492]

Should be ashamed of him, not yourself

[@surinfarmwest6645]

Saturday night history with Stefan and we find the communists did something useful!

[@HistoryHustle]

Many thanks!!

[@leeworsham5706]

5:50 "The first time Communists helped Jews" LOL wow you are in such denial. 😄

[@HistoryHustle]

Communists believe in equality so when one group is targetted they resist. At least, that's what happened then in the Netherlands. But it really doesn't matter what I say, does it?

[@newideas5572]

@@HistoryHustle I like your videos and I'm sure that you're aware that you have to walk a tight rope to make videos about WW2 on KZbin - while still being honest, but you cannot deny the fact that Jews had leading roles in the communist movement during that period in Europe..

[@frisianprideworldwide]

@@newideas5572 after the german invasion commie's didnt help the jews beacause germany and the soviet union where still in good therms so they didnt resist the germans at first in the netherlands at least