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HET ABC VAN HET NAZIREGIEM.
Brussel: A.N.U.M. Leuven, nd [1945]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. Title translates as: THE ABC OF THE NAZI REGIME. Small booklet published after WW II, anti-Nazi alphabet book in Dutch. Illustrated by Herman Vos.
WITBAARD: DE KONING VAN KABOUTERLAND.
N.p. [Netherlands]. n.d., [c. 1943]. Small octavo, pp. [1-8], stiff pictorial card covers. Anti-Semitic propaganda. Witbaard (White Beard), the King of Kabouterland [Gnome country] arrests Joris, the cheese thief, a large mouse with a big nose, representing the Jews (predating Maus by 40 years). This is an allegorical tale of Jewish persecution, the tale ends with Joris in jail and being told it would be better if he left the land. Scarce, one copy listed in WorldCat.
WIJ MAKEN GESCHIEDENIS.
Amsterdam: Het Hollandsche Uitgevershuis, 1946. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First Dutch edition. Title translates as: WE MAKE HISTORY. Art by Robert Ziller, Dutch text by A.A. van Eijsden, Jr. Portraits of Nazi figures, and other WW II figures and victims. This work was first published in the U.K. in 1940 where he was an expatriate and worked for the British Ministry of Information. Text is largely quotes from many of the illustrated figures. A sobering look.