00:00Arthur Seys Inquart was Reich Kommissar of the Netherlands during the whole occupation
00:04from May 1940 until May 1945, and in this position he was responsible for sending slave
00:10laborers to Germany, the deportation of over 100,000 Dutch Jews to death camps, the suppression
00:16of the February strike, and the shooting of resistance fighters.
00:20In late 1944, when it became obvious that the Allies were about to retake the country,
00:25Hitler issued orders to enact a scorched earth policy upon the Netherlands.
00:30However, Arthur Seys Inquart was able to greatly limit the scope to which the order was executed.
00:35Before Adolf Hitler committed suicide on 30 April 1945, in his last will and testament,
00:42he named the new government headed by Karl Dönitz and appointed Seys Inquart as new foreign minister,
00:47replacing Joachim von Ribbentrop. However, Seys Inquart held the office only from 30 April
00:53until the 2nd of May 1945.
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