Humanitarianism (The Netherlands)
| Autor: | Bergen, Leo Van |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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| DOI: | 10.15463/ie1418.11114 |
| Popis: | During the First World War, the neutral Dutch were involved in humanitarian endeavours both inside the Netherlands and abroad. The most significant was their care of refugees who crossed into the country from Belgium and France from August 1914 on and again during the last months of the war. Other humanitarian activities included the exchange of wounded prisoners of war and the care of impoverished children after the war. Many of these activities were undertaken as emergency measures, others involved key instruments of the state (including the Dutch armed forces and local civic authorities). Private ambulance units were key agents of humanitarianism outside the Netherlands. These ambulances are often hailed as a hallmark of neutrality, but could just as well be framed as endangering neutrality, since they usually made no secret of their sympathies. For its part, the Dutch Red Cross (DRC) took a while to assist these humanitarian efforts; its main concern was assisting the Dutch army in case the Netherlands entered the war. It assisted in the exchange of wounded POWs and the aid of refugees in 1918, although not without the request of the army. 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War |
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