NIOD Instituut voor Oorlogs-, Holocaust- and Genocidestudies
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The NIOD Instituut voor Oorlogs-, Holocaust- en Genocidestudies (NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, formerly the Nederlands Instituut voor Oorlogsdocumentatie , Dutch Institute for War Documentation) is a research institution based in Amsterdam , which originally dealt exclusively with the scientific processing the occupation of the Netherlands and Dutch East India during the Second World War , but today covers a longer period. The NIOD houses archives of the German (Netherlands) and Japanese (Dutch East Indies) occupying powers as well as collections of books, photos, correspondence, posters, illegal newspapers and pamphlets.
history
The planning for the establishment already started during the occupation, the institute was officially opened a few days after the unconditional surrender of the Wehrmacht on May 8, 1945, initially as the Reich Office for War Documentation in the Netherlands. In the same year it was renamed the Reich Institute for War Documentation ( Rijksinstituut voor Oorlogsdocumentatie , RIOD).
The first director (later director) was Loe de Jong , formerly an employee of the London resistance broadcaster Radio Oranje . The institute addressed the population via radio, newspapers and posters in order to be able to collect as much material as possible of documentary value. In 1946, the RIOD in Münster succeeded in obtaining large parts of the archive of the Reich Commissioner of the Netherlands. As early as January 1948, the Minister for Culture, Education and Science Jos Gielen saw the institute as an unnecessary luxury, but was unable to assert his opinion. In particular, the success of De Jong's (not undisputed) monumental standard work Het Koninkrijk der Nederlanden in de Tweede Wereldoorlog (The Kingdom of the Netherlands in World War II), the first volume of which was published in 1969, ensured the future of the institute. De Jong remained director of the RIOD until 1979 and did not complete the work on his standard work until years later. Numerous other employees of the institute were also active in journalism.
In 1996 the institute was commissioned to investigate the Srebrenica massacre and the role of the Dutch blue helmet soldiers and that of their commander Thomas Karremans . The report published in 2002 resulted in the resignation of the Kok cabinet . In 1998, the general research period was finally extended to the years 1914 (outbreak of the First World War ) until the end of the 20th century. On January 1, 1999, the institute was split off from the Ministry of Culture, Education and Science and joined the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences . In the course of this, it got its current name.
The new premises in an old canal villa on Herengracht 380 were rebuilt and expanded according to designs by the Benthem Crouwel architectural office , and thus brought into its current form.
In cooperation with NIOD, the Persmuseum (Dutch press museum), the ISSG , the University Library of the University of Amsterdam (UvA) and the Katholiek Documentatiecentrum ("Catholic Documentation Center", KDC), a collection of journals from the period from 1896 to 1949 with a total of 15,238 pages created.
The NIOD today
The NIOD, which employs a few dozen people, offers both written answers to questions and a visit to the institute for your own research after prior notification. In 2010 the NIOD merged with the Centrum voor Holocaust- en Genocidestudies, since then it has had its current name.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Netherlands - Government resigns due to Srebrenica massacre In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , April 16, 2002.