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In 1949 he was tried by a Dutch court in absentia and received the death penalty. The sentence was never carried out; Briedé died of natural causes in Germany in January 1962. The history of the Henneicke Column was researched by Dutch journalist Ad van Liempt , who in 2002 published in the Netherlands: A Price on Their Heads, Kopgeld, Dutch ...
List of disasters in Sweden by death toll; List of disasters in the United States by death toll This page was last edited on 15 September 2024, at 05:25 ...
This is a list of people who were murdered in the Sobibor extermination camp. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum states that at least 170,000 people were murdered there. The Dutch Sobibor Foundation lists a calculated total of 170,165 people and cites the Höfle Telegram among its sources, while noting that other estimates range up to ...
Amsterdam was also a member of the Society of Suriname, an organisation founded to oversee the management of the Dutch colony of Surinam, which was economically dependent on slave plantations. On 1 July 2021, the mayor of Amsterdam, Femke Halsema, apologised for the city's involvement in the slave trade. [57] [58]
Migrants aboard an inflatable vessel before their rescue co-ordinated by USS Carney near Spain in February 2013. This article is a list of migrant vessel incidents on the Mediterranean Sea leading up to and resulting from the European migrant crisis with recent migration also related to developments such as the Arab Spring protests (2010–2012), civil wars in Syria (since 2011) and Libya ...
Turkish immigrants first began to settle in big cities in the Netherlands such as Amsterdam, Rotterdam, The Hague and Utrecht as well as the regions of Twente and Limburg, where there was a growing demand for industrial labour. However, not only the large cities but also medium-sized cities, and even small villages attracted the Turks.
Forty-seven people were killed in the disaster: all four occupants of the aircraft (three crew members and one nonrevenue passenger) and 43 people on the ground. [3]: 9 This was considerably lower than expected; the police had originally estimated a death toll over 200 [15] and Amsterdam Mayor Ed van Thijn had said that 240 people were missing.
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