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   https://nltimes.nl/2025/04/24/amsterdam-mayor-halsema-apologizes-citys-role-persecution-jews-wwii or https://nltimes.nl/2025/04/24/amsterdam-mayor-halsema-apologizes-citys-role-persecution-jews-wwii ;
During the war, the municipality actively cooperated with the occupying force, Halsema said in her speech. Municipal officials mapped out where Jewish Amsterdammers resided, the Amsterdam city police cooperated in the deportations of tens of thousands of Jews, and the municipality made trams from city public transport operator GVB available to help transport those being deported.
The mayor called the implementation of a registration requirement for Jewish Amsterdammers an "indispensable step in isolating, humiliating, deporting, dehumanizing and murdering 60,000 Amsterdam Jews." The inescapable conclusion is also that the municipality morally failed, she said.
See also https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESobn7zwlKg or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESobn7zwlKg (English subtitles via cc).

Since the Germans in 1940 did see the Dutch as "fellow Germans" -Dutch-German relations only slowly grew worse...By the time NL had to deal with nazi-terror most Jews were already deported to "work camps in the east"...The idea of industrialized mass murder (on 104,000 of the 120,000 Dutch Jews) did not fit in the way of thinking...