The national railway company formally apologised for its role in transporting Jews to concentration camps, and municipal authorities in Amsterdam announced that they would consider refunding the money paid by Jewish residents who had returned to the city from concentration camps, only to be issued with ground rent bills by the authorities. But there was still a way to go. In 2012, for instance, Prime Minister Mark Rutte refused to apologise for the Dutch government’s policy towards Jews during the war. Browsing a slick, government-funded website commemorating the Rotterdam air raids, I
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