Under Nazi Noses

Gerald Loftus led the discussion about one of the successful aspects of the Dutch Resistance to the Nazi Occupation, 1940-1945.  The resistance was desperate to find financial support for thousands of demobilzed Dutch soldiers and workers hiding from officals who wanted to deport them for forced labour in Germany, for the families of merchant seamen that could not return from overseas, for the Jewish familes in hidding, for the families of 15,000 rail workers on strike, and for the members of the underground engaged in propaganda, intelligence work and sabotage. 

With the help of some bankers and bond traders, a source was found to fund the myriad of needs. After the primary presentation, Sander van Eck, whose grandfather was in the Dutch Resistance, gave a short presentation with documents and photos of a secure, but parallel telephone trunk service that linked leaders of resistance operations.