Netherlands and Belgium
The low countries were overrun by Nazi Germany in the May–June 1940 blitzkrieg. The Dutch East Indies, the Netherlands most important colony, was conquered by Japan in early 1942. However each had a government in exile which set up the Belgian Ministry of Information and Netherlands Information Bureau, which produced the following films. There were also films made by the resistance while the respective countries were occupied.
| Year | Title | Director | Agency | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1941 | Belgique toujours | Hippolyte De Kempeneer | Belgian resistance movement | Dutch title: Immer België; English title Forever Belgium |
| 1942 | Little Belgium | Belgian Ministry of Information | Nominated for Academy Award for Documentary Short Subject | |
| 1942 | People of the Indies | Netherlands Information Bureau | ||
| 1942 | Holland in the Western Hemisphere | Netherlands Information Bureau | ||
| 1942 | High Stakes in the East | Netherlands Information Bureau | ||
| 1942 | The Dutch Next Door | Netherlands Information Bureau | ||
| 1943 | Glorious Colours | Alfred Travers | Netherlands Information Bureau |
Read more about this topic: List Of Allied Propaganda Films Of World War II
Famous quotes containing the word netherlands:
“Greece is a sort of American vassal; the Netherlands is the country of American bases that grow like tulip bulbs; Cuba is the main sugar plantation of the American monopolies; Turkey is prepared to kow-tow before any United States pro-consul and Canada is the boring second fiddle in the American symphony.”
—Andrei Andreyevich Gromyko (1909–1989)