From: World Literature Today | Date: June 22, 1996| Author: Schenk, Leslie | COPYRIGHT 1996 University of Oklahoma. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

It is a very peculiar thing, the relative silence of the Dutch regarding their compatriots' sufferings in Nazi concentration camps and in their Japanese equivalents in the former East Indies, today's Indonesia. The Dutch seem rarely to discuss the subject, even among themselves. There is no point in dwelling on this silence, because there is no shred of evidence available to support the various explanatory theories that might come to mind. For the rest of us, however, it is something...