00:00On the 14th of December, 1931, Mussart, Cornelis van Gelkirken, and ten others founded the National Socialist Movement in the
00:08Netherlands, or the NSB, a Dutch counterpart to the German Nazi Party. Anton Mussart led this movement until 1945.
00:17In 1932, Mussart founded Werbarnheitsaufdeling, or Resilience Department, the paramilitary arm of the NSB, roughly equivalent to the German SA.
00:27Members wore and marched in black uniforms, and were thus called black shirts.
00:32Mussart gave up his career as a civil engineer to devote himself entirely to political activity.
00:38He initially strongly rejected German racial doctrine and anti-Semitism, but later the party became more radical and anti-Semitic.
00:46While in its early years the NSB boasted that its membership included several hundred Jews, from 1938 Jews were no
00:53longer allowed to be NSB members.
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