The Dutch boy who received the German Knight's Cross - World War II 

@Sam Armstrong You're a bitch.

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He shouldn't have joined the Nazis in the first place..

@@olgamihajlova3577 Was it by choice?

​@@raymondweaver8526 It was. It says in the documentary his father wanted him to join the family business, but Gerard volunteerd for the ss. 0:44

@@olgamihajlova3577 Everyone has a country to fight, that statement is so ignorant. Sure it was a bad choice, but if british had lost the war the germans would be saying the exact same thing.

@@olgamihajlova3577 While he was fighting for the Nazis possible Jewish friends his age were dragged from their families and murdered. Think on that.

Derk-Elsko Bruins also had the Knight's Cross but did not show it off.

I agree, listening to that accent is very satisfying!

It was a military occupation but an ideological liberation, had the axis won WW2 we wouldn't become a minority in our own countries by 2070

@@ziepex7009 it's so clear, it's pretty much entirely understandable for someone who only speaks High German

@@lxi9648 Yup!

@@ziepex7009 usually spoken Low German is much harder to understand because people speak colloquially

@@Abram2020 Do you believe it?

@@Abram2020 That's what 'they said'....

Nazi were the biggest criminals of mankind. Learn history

@@mixalismasaoutis1798 No . It was communist bolshevik. 80 millions deads in 70 years !

@@magyarburgundy That idiot was called Stalin, you morron!

@@mixalismasaoutis1798 many German Soldiers were not Nazis, I would suggest you study a little more yourself!!

@@magyarburgundy and now imagine if Hitler had power in 70 years!

Maybe they didn't take to kindly to being invaded by Romanian soldiers. How unreasonable of them.

@@Makeyourselfbig Soviets invaded Romania well before that; multiple times. Plus the soviets had a policy of total domination, any attack on them was justified.

@@Makeyourselfbig The baltic states didnt want to be part of Soviet Union. Also Karelia province which the soviets took from Finland was majority finnish, but today is full of russians.Also the history of Soviet Union is full of deportations of whole populations and gulags.That is why in WW2 many populations sided with Germany against Soviet Union. The russians were considered worst than the germans

You mean pro Nazi were killed. GOOD!

@@patriciabrenner9216 Russian troll alert.

karma

Chris Savas why?

Rebug laat die mafkees maar praten. Je opa was een held

dtothez187 thx man!!

Moge hij rusten in vrede!

This was a common sentiment among frontline soldiers; many chafed at the idea of being singled out for accolades when so many of their friends had not returned.

Many real soldiers feel that way while theres also a soldier who takes all the glory

Wrong side? spotted the communist.

@@pieterwillembotha6719 hp

His life after the war wasnt that bad .. few years prison. After believe he was carpenter and very much accepted in the community. He gave a interview (google it) and died in a car crash in the 80s . In my eyes he did nothing wrong as a young man .

The "wrong side" is always determined by the winner of a war.

@@pieterwillembotha6719 I smell a traitor. Bet you like killing your fellow countrymen.

That has happened too many goddamn times... in all wars... especially including Vietnam... two I knew died that way.

IKR. Even Patton. It’s a damn shame.

Just a cohencidence Im sure

@@tristanmorris9432You should do some research into that, I and many others believe that Patton's car crash was no accident.

@@R.Lennartz exactly, everyone in that jeep got off without a scratch but him, give me a break!

nazi bitch

Tank destruction badges were not awarded to anti-tank units personnel. This was already their expected job. And the big gun was manned by a crew, not individually operated. No tank badges.

@@pagodebregaeforro2803 I see, still would be great to see him with the general assault badge, close combat badge, or wound badge (if wounded). I’ve rarely seen an iron cross alone on a chest before.

Mooijmann did nothing wrong.

I'm sure more would have joined if they were able to. Also there were a number of very embarrassing snafus by British intelligence early in the occupation that cost the resistance many lives and were used as propaganda to discourage others from joining. Combine these factors with the NSB collaborators and the very real life threatening situations that come with having thousands of germans occupying your country and the gestapo and you may come to hold the Dutch resistance in higher esteem and be more sympathic to the Dutch people.

12.000 huh ? Interesting ! Where did you get that from ? Back it up, or shut up.

@@gc9542 There was an article in one of the WWII magazines. As to you, I don't give a shit what you think. The nazis activly recruited from the French, Scandanafian countries, and from Hungary. The Lithuanians and Ukranians did a lot of the Nazis dirty work in condentration camps. Get off your lazy ass and do some research. You will find my facts. You sound like a red pinko commie?

Most people assimilated to the new situation. The February Strike got beat down so hard that the people knew they had to come up with more sneaky forms of resistance. Plus, the Germans didn't treat the Dutch too bad (unless you were non - Aryan, gay or communist) up until 1943, which is why that year is the year when the Dutch resistance against German occupation grew a lot.

@@alfredenisz4775 Friedrich, I noticed your offensive remarks that are literally ALL OVER the internet ! You're not just "outspoken", you're an opinionated tyrant working from the safe confines of the internet. And, according to you, I'm a lazy ass and I sound like a Red pinko commie, huh ? Why don't you come and see me some time and compare notes.

communists and muslims!

nave conterosso Killing someone over their religion is genocide. Are you actually willing to kill Muslims who have no involvement with extremists?

A. Soldier Yet it is shameful for fighting for the people who invaded your country, and enslaved portions of your population. These men were also fighting Bolshevism specifically, while communist sentiments were present throughout Europe.

He was a collaborator and a traitor. Read my comment.

@@sidsimon5963 To be honest I don't really give a fuck what you have to say, he fought against the people that tried to and are still trying to destroy the West and that's enough for me to consider him a hero.

@JZ's Best Friend He fought for his the survival of his people against bolshevism. He's a straight up hero and more of a man than you could ever even conceive of. Chump.

@JZ's Best Friend Certain Dutch like you simply preferred the other occupier.. the occupier that your leadership fled to during the war and the occupier you contribute your soldiers to even today, to fight theirs wars in farflung places like Afganistan. I think your fondness for this occupier stems from the need to justify the common means employed to achieve "greatness".. the conquest and enslavement of the third world during the Dutch Golden Age. And since you worship might (macht) you automatically cower to it.

@JZ's Best Friend Not all peoples conquered other peoples and became rich enslaving them and trading them as objects in the name of God. You seem to insist that I prove this fact first before I can make a value judgement on the concept of conquest and enslavement and enrichment thereby. This in itself exposes you.

@JZ's Best Friend Don't discuss with a revisionist, you are losing your time ....

Thorsten Er du dansker? Du har ret.

..and your point is? One had to be a member of the Bathist Party to get on in Iraq....

Not so, only true of the SS.

@@robertchubb1518 you guys aren’t very bright.

And they say that we all are white racists

He betrayed his nation, he could have joined the resistance instead. Not a word abaut fighting against the Americans, English and so on when his regiment fought on the western front.

@@sorennilsson9742 Yet look at the absolute state of Europe now.

@@MrGarrett Yeas look at it, most people have survived pandemic. Living standard in Europe is among the best in the world. Crime rate among the lowest in the world, life expectensy among the highest in the world of the 30 nations with the longest life expectensy 21 are European. So stop complaining.

@@sorennilsson9742 Assuming the interest of his nation was defending the British Empire’s absolute rule over world trade. Too bad the Allied lost the Cold War, Globalization and the Battle of Brexit.

@@sorennilsson9742 I'm guessing you're a swede.

Jingle Jangle exactly

It's beacause he joined te nsb. He was seen as a traitor of his country

Olav VK ohh rip

@@pokilowlaf9849 But He was not! That's an injustice!

@@jinglejangle3287 0:29....

He was a collaborator and a traitor. Read my comment.

@Vid Caf Did you read my comment ? Is there any point I made that you can reasonably contest ? That two worded comment gives me a negative impression of you and your world ( hitler lover, under employed, fascist, low level education, racist, antisemitic, problem child and so on) but maybe I'm wrong about you. Why don't you reply to my comment with more than two words and prove me wrong .

nazi bitch

Hitlers intelligence was the limitation... He blunders for England...

Are you on drugs ?

Only because they were running out of men.

@@billymule961 no, they just wanted every man they could get. The soviets were running out of men however so bad that they put women in combat roles and many people assume they’re progressive for that

...You are incorrect...

fabio sunspot those fake trials STFU

He was tried for "collaboration with the enemy" and was very fortunate to make it to trial . In almost every country the germans occupied, male collaborators were either beaten by mobs and/or arrested-tried-sentenced to prison if not killed outright after liberation. Many chose to flee with the retreating germans. One such group was the 33rd Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS composed of French collaborators and the last unit to guard hitler's bunker. Surprisingly as far as I've read , Women were somewhat spared this fate in all Western countries with most being chased out of their hometown after being shaved bald . Not to say that this was an easy fate for them as many were repeatedly beaten and raped on end for months as their short hair made them targets for reprisals. In one part of France 30 percent of the reprisal killing victims were women. Some escaped that fate by being hidden by relatives . One thing Grandparents don't talk about is that for months after the wars end many of those women could be found just outside U.S. bases engaging in the world's oldest business as American soldiers were seen to be more sympathetic and protective than the French or British soldiers. Things were very different in the East , men and women were shot or sent to the gulags .

Wearing the wrong uniform.

Being a traitor

@@patrickwatsup traitor we have lots of them here in America their called Democrats

what touching here:)? stupid little SS bastard who went as a volunteer to my country to kill and rape for fun? I really regret that his remains haven't rotted on Russian soil.

@@Funnychainsaw26 I understand your feelings. My point is more for today's generation of people who are too often misled by political opportunists and haters. I, in no way, condone the actions of the Germans and the SS in the countries of the ex-Soviet Union. These were war criminals of the worst sort. The Dutch boy was a product of his upbringing. My point is that physical courage is not enough; we need the courage to think on our own and that includes being strong enough to stand up to those around us.

Where does misinformation start? Look at how many kids of a criminal family do not escape a criminal lifestyle themselves. How to deal with this? Imagine how hell would break loose when goverments decide to interact in child education at home. Is there any other solution? Basically it is unfair that kids are almost doomed to make wrong choices just because of their family education / misinformation. Maybe parental impact should be held accountable in court?

@@zwergje1096 your points are well taken. It would be wonderful to see parents held accountable but parents vote unlike kids. Teachers make for good scapegoats. That’s the sad reality. On the plus, I am a living example of a kid who beat the odds, no thanks to my stepmother and biological father.

for invading a foreign country, for supporting a dictator who killed million of innocent civilians

@@KR-jt4ut your talking about the USA here right? Or the soviet union perhaps? Or britain?

It was (and is) a crime to join the army of a foreign power that has invaded your country.

@@jayzandstra1830 I don't think this young Dutch Nazi fought for the USA/Britain/USSR .... just try to understand the subject (search for a translator ?)

@@jayzandstra1830 no, he's talking about nazi germany, any more questions?

Europe needed heroes to oppose Satan not join him.

Europe isn’t a country.

@@annoyingbstard9407 first of all i put it in parenthesis and stated i meant to use Europe as a "state" in my sentence because well, it basically was a state. The Nazi state turned these foreign countries into protectorates, or satellite states, or added them to the German Reich. "Fortress Europe" was a common term and most ppl living in conquered Europe saw themselves as belonging incorporated into the Reich, with varying amounts of autonomy.

@@isaacb.4324 He's a traitor, his brothers in arms died trying to fight off the nazi onslaught and he joined them. He's a traitor by definition. Also, "protectorate"? You'd be ok by living under the ideologies, rules and views of a foreign country that forcefully entered yours? Wow, you're a hardcore beta. Luckily Europe knew better.

@@Eureka2003 , that was his mistake.

what have you achieved in your hero live

What have you done?? I'm pretty sure! 0/0

@@ParadoxicalSerenity ww2 is over do you are a hero?

@@ParadoxicalSerenity and what have you done?

@@uroscugalj2934 enough ✌🏻

Horacio Labadine. Tiene razòn. E usted Español?

He is a murder killing innocent civilians in Russia and soviet soldiers. He’s a criminal.

Loco..

He was a collaborator and a traitor. Read my comment.

@@sidsimon5963 Why? The Zionist told you he was a traitor and a collaborator? The history does not determine who is right but who is left. The victors write history. So fuck the history.

@@agentjubra5115 No "Zionist" ever told me anything. I don't think I've ever met one. I have met plenty of anti Semitics who are quick to use that term. I read more than I watch TV or movies and I'm guided by my upbringing, my education and my conscience. As for your comment "fuck the history", I guarantee you are headed down a very predictable path.

@@sidsimon5963 You sound like a zionist. Antisemite is the code word for anti-white. You need to watch Europa the Last Battle.

@@agentjubra5115 As we speak ( or cross comment ) I am currently watching a movie about a man named Max Manus. The movie is about true events that happened in Norway during the occupation. Max Manus was a resistance fighter who did everything he could to make the germans as miserable as he could. He is a shining example of how every able bodied man should behave under those circumstances. Circumstances Identical to those experienced by Gerard Mooyman. The google definition of a Zionist reads as follows " a supporter of Zionism; a person who believes in the development and protection of a Jewish nation in what is now Israel. " I have no problem with that. I know my name sounds Jewish but I"m actually a nappy headed half Black, 1/4 Native American (Yaquis) 1/4 Irish former Altar Boy who grew up in one of the worst housing projects in NYC, The dreaded Baisley Projects in South Jamaica. The only Jewish thing about me is my name. I respect the Judaism and Islam equally and readily defend both equally.

You have a point Stalin was responsible for more deaths than Hitler. Also this kid was a soldier and fought other soldiers no civilians and deserved respect.

@@Edwin6932 You should look to Russia in 1917, murdered the Tsar and family and then 40,000,000 ethnic Russians.

@@Edwin6932 , Stalin did not murder anyone. Read the book "Stalin waiting for the truth" by Grover Furr.

Stalin didn't attack Germany, this bastard attacked Russia together with the Germans and killed many innocent civilians. Stalin didn't kill people. The Nazis killed more than 50 million people.

@@olgamihajlova3577 How many ethnic Russians, orthodox Christians, were murdered in the years following the October Revolution, by whom, then in the Ukraine and under whom again including the plan's diviser and, no pun intended, executionner; Lenin had promised Bolshevism to the world, most knew it, most turned a blind eye, complied, or, mainly, shot the messengers.

For "military collaboration", with collaborating having a very heavy treasoness undertone. A "collaborateur" was a traitor. So for services fighting for the enemy, in a foreign army. This is illegal in many countries.

@@rickglorie Fair enough, tho they should have just pardoned him. He only collaborated after Netherlands surrendered, in order to fight a third party altogether, and fighting against the red menace is justified in my book.

My my, aren't we a sore loser.

who lost and who is sore....and what did you win?

@@mikehutchings1567 The Nazis lost, you are sore. We won a world where Nazis aren't in charge...

@@NeonGen2000 murder is murder no matter who won....and good people died on both sides, and what makes you think the damn NAZI went away....they didn't and forget the name and look at the deeds and the pattern of control in Europe that is alleged to be free but isn't....READ Other Loses, Gruesome Harvest, and Germany's War to start with, .read anything but the sanitized history regarding the run up and the ultimate goal of the allies, that was decades if not centuries in the making....and then tell me all about this WE business? what have WE won but the right to fight the next NAZI incarnation. WE are dealing with it now

@Jim lastname the winners write the history the truth goes begging....

He was an idiot at least, and if he still understood what he was doing then he was a bastard killing innocent people. Leningrad lost one million of innocent civilians because of the monsters like him.

@@olgamihajlova3577 Soviets didn't kill anyone, sweet saints that they were.

@@JG-tt4sz soviets didnt start the war moron, they defended themselfs..

@@YaverMemolibaba I know. Wonderful, peaceful Soviets.

@@JG-tt4sz bla bla bla, they where still not the aggressors! sit on that nazi cunt!

And what's his name ?

Exactly--and since the winner writes the history, the winner was always the good guy and the loser always the bad guy.

SS 💩

So did Patton.

@@DeniatitadenCompostela But that was supposedly a murder/Big conspiracy. Almost makes me wonder...

@@F-4E-58-MC Just saw this, I'd been wondering the same.

@@David-ci1vn Yeah I just highly doubt either were accidental... It just... Doesn't add up...

Traitor nazi! No hero

A true traitor.

@@_armyhawk_8779 you are a traitor

Thats very hard for people whos grandparent and parents lived in occupied land to say, because in doing so it feels like you are endorsing germany and their army, who were obviously hated because of the fact that they carried out the orders from above. Think of it in this way, no-one should be mad at a policeman for giving out a parking ticket and doing their job but because they are the face of your problem you will still probably blame them. Hope this helps and greetings from the netherlands

@@wolfgangsamadeusmozart6430 You know, I never thought of it that way

Showing clemency to a wartime traitor is ‘nonsense’?

He's a traitor by definition lol, you can't even sugarcoat it 😂😂

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Ahahahahahahah, god doesn't exist. Nietzsche said!

@@abidalanatine9432 yeah we know youre a jew

AMEN.

Communism was a bless. I want it back...

Yes, that's true!

Right you are, god bless you.

Hey, we fucked you up really well in the 40s. Salut from Russia.

@@olgamihajlova3577 Hey COMMUNISM ( Stalin & Lenin ) Fucked your OWN Country up even more during its Famines - Mass Executions and Gulags too ! Salute from DEUTSCHLAND ! 😘

@@motorrebell , the famines were caused by the west, as the west refused to trade for gold but only accepted grain. Famines were also in other countries. The repressions were caused by the trotskists, not by communists and they are exaggerated. Gulag was a normal prison for criminals. Communism is the best social and economic formation in the world. Salut from Russia.

@@olgamihajlova3577 Communism is the WORST social and economic SYSTEM that has KILLED OVER 100 MILLION of its OWN Citizens WORLDWIDE - Yes Indeed ! . Thats why your country" is called Russia and not SOVIET UNION anymore ! 😂

@@motorrebell , all what you wrote is nonesense ,you are just a brainwashed dummy. The USSR collapsed because of the traitors like Gorbachev, but it will be restored. You'd better look closer to home. German women can't walk down the street safely. Capitalism has come to its end...

I think 19

@@latinogroyper9627 oh thx

Een schoft was hij..

Liberated not occupied

@@janee7995 based

@@janee7995 , liberated?🤭 Yeah, they're still free..

@@olgamihajlova3577 since Mai 1945 the Netherlands is occupied. Some idiots think they are free and live in a democracy 😂😂🤣🤣🤣

The most racist military in the world had people from all over the World with every skin color and religion in it