Michael De Sapio is a h0Ɩ0h0αx peddler: https://theimaginativeconservative.org/2017/11/catholic-girl-wartime-holland-michael-de-sapio.html.
Thank you for this link to an interesting article. As for De Sapio, I would characterize him as not so much a h0Ɩ0h0αx peddler as simply one who shares the h0Ɩ0h0αx delusion that hundreds of millions of others have been brainwashed into accepting as historical fact. Whichever characterization is more accurate, I quite agree that truth is done a grave disservice.
One thing I particularly noted in the article is that the description of the horrible Dutch famine of the 1944/45 winter (it lasted about four months, not the two years the article offhandedly implies) is distinguished by the curious absence of any quoted remarks from Mrs. van Egmond. That fact alone ought to put a casual reader on the alert. As it happens, I had a very dear friend, a gentleman I shall call Frits, who also lived through that famine. Frits, who was born in October 1927
* and was thus nine months older than Mrs. van Egmond, lived with his family in The Hague. He thus lived through the entirety of the German occupation and knew the truth about the cause of the famine—as Mrs. van Egmond probably does, too.
The most relevant aspect of that truth is that the famine was knowingly caused by the sainted Allies, not by the evil German occupiers.
** Because of both the incessant and criminally immoral Allied bombing of civilian targets throughout Germany and occupied Europe and the success of the D-day invasion on a great many fronts, the Dutch harvest of autumn 1944 had largely been destroyed, and the supply routes connecting the Netherlands to Germany were in a state of ruin, what with most of the bridges across the Rhine and many other rivers having been destroyed either from the air or by Allied saboteurs. The general in charge of the Germans' Dutch occupation administration, entirely on his own initiative, approached the International Red Cross officials in autumn 1944 and warned them that a devastating famine would soon strike Holland because of the Allied offensive. He proposed an arrangement whereby neutral and even Allied planes and surface vessels would bring food and clothing to the Dutch people and would be unmolested by the German troops and air defense installations. He further proposed to place the entire program under Red Cross supervision to guarantee its integrity and the absence of deceit and to ensure that no more than an agreed-upon small percentage of the foodstuffs would be diverted to the German soldiers.
***Despite the fact that the IRC gave its enthusiastic support to the plan, Eisenhower and the rest of the Allied command rejected it contemptuously. They didn't care in the least how many civilians died so long as their plan for the utter destruction of Germany continued unabated.
Frits told me that although everyone in the Netherlands with even the slightest connection to news from underground sources knew who had caused the famine and how it could have been averted, Allied propaganda brazenly attributed the famine to nαzι cruelty—and continues to do so.
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*He died in February 2008. May God rest his soul.
**Facetiousness alert!
***The German occupying forces did not starve as the Dutch civilians did, but they did have to endure very strict rationing.