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The early years of the war
The arrival of German occupying forces has
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culture sector. Just days after the surrender of the
Dutch forces, the occupying authorities order the
resumption of exports to Germany. In addition,
the cultivation and sale of horticultural products
are strictly regulated. The most important of these
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is the provision that half of the products brought
In addition, the maximum prices for the various
to the auctions will be purchased for German use
products are not coordinated correctly. For
and at set prices. As time goes by, the demand
example, the maximum prices for products such
appears to be greater than the supply. This has
as grapes, early potatoes and wax carrots are
the effect of making market gardeners less careful
much more unfavourable than for tomatoes,
with their produce – after all, they can sell them
lettuce, cucumbers, kohlrabi and various winter
at a fixed price. So the general aim of the market
vegetables. It is therefore natural that market
gardener is to produce as much as possible
gardeners will take this into account. For example,
of such mediocre quality that it is just barely
during the war much of the grape crop disappears
accepted by the German quality inspectors.
to make way for tomatoes, whereas before the war,
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around 33 per cent of the produce auctioned in
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Attraction
Lettuce
The Westland consisted of grapes.
Market gardeners are also obliged to cultivate
a pre-crop in the greenhouses, which involves
growing a crop prior to the main crop. This leads
to an overproduction of young vegetables in
spring, including spinach and turnip greens.
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Breeders’
Decree
Initially, the intentions of the occupiers
do not seem to be too bad; the Dutch
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are seen as Germanic ‘brethren’, and the
new administrator of the Netherlands,
Reichskommissar Seyss-Inquart, is
ordered by Hitler not to allow the
standard of living in the Netherlands to
fall below that of Germany. In this way,
he hopes to get the Dutch on his side for
his plans for a new Europe.
The exception to this preferential
treatment is the Jewish community in
the Netherlands, which faces restrictive
and humiliating measures immediately
after May 1940.
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