New Arrivals

Read more about the new collections acquired or arranged in the second trimester of 2012:


 

• the Dutch communist Daan Goulooze set up a network of underground liaisons between communist parties in western European countries and Moscow (1933-1943) and was accused of being a double agent later.
• Victor de Bruijn, nicknamed Jungle Pimpernel, was a government official on Dutch New-Guinea, explored terra incognita and in 1943 marched through the jungle with a group of Papuans to escape from the Japanese.
• the German professor of political science Wolfgang Abendroth was a soldier in the Wehrmacht on the Greek island of  Lemnos, went over to the partisans and lived in both Germanies after his release from British was captivity.