Made public: management files NBI
At the beginning of this year, the management files (from the period 1945-1967) of the Netherlands Institute for Administration (NBI) became public and can be requested and viewed at the National Archives.
Tasks of the NBI were among others:
- Management and liquidation of the enemy and treacherous assets. Traitors of the NSB and Dutchmen who had entered foreign military service, such as the SS, fell among traitors. Enemies were residents of the countries with which the Netherlands had been at war, especially countries such as Germany, Italy and Japan.
- Liquidation of a number of organizations originating from the occupation, such as the NSB and related institutions.
- Control over property of absentees. In practice, these were often deported and not (yet) returned Jews.
You can find the index of management files at GaHetNa in the archive description. On Open Archives this index is made searchable by name:
When there is a file of a person, this can be viewed at the National Archives in The Hague, Netherlands.
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