The NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies (

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: ''NIOD Instituut voor Oorlogs-, Holocaust- en Genocidestudies'') is an

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in the

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which maintains archives and carries out

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studies into the

Second World War World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposi ...

, the Holocaust and other genocides around the world, past and present. The institute was founded as a merger of the Netherlands Institute for War Documentation (

: ''Nederlands instituut voor oorlogsdocumentatie'', NIOD, formerly National Institute for War Documentation,

: ''Rijksinstituut voor oorlogsdocumentatie'', RIOD) and the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies (CHGS). It has been part of the

Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences ( nl, Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen, abbreviated: KNAW) is an organization dedicated to the advancement of science and literature in the Netherlands. The academy is housed ...

since 1 January 1999.

Mission

According to its website, the NIOD Institute's mission is to: It administers the archives of the

German occupation of the Netherlands Despite Dutch neutrality, Nazi Germany invaded the Netherlands on 10 May 1940 as part of Fall Gelb (Case Yellow). On 15 May 1940, one day after the bombing of Rotterdam, the Dutch forces surrendered. The Dutch government and the royal family re ...

and the

Japanese occupation of the Dutch East Indies The Empire of Japan occupied the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia) during World War II from March 1942 until after the end of the war in September 1945. It was one of the most crucial and important periods in modern Indonesian history. In May ...

, as well as large collections of clandestine newspapers and pamphlets, photographs, books and articles.

Studies and publications

The institute published The Kingdom of the Netherlands During World War II (Dutch: ''Het Koninkrijk der Nederlanden in de Tweede Wereldoorlog'') in fourteen volumes and 18,000 pages. This magnum opus of

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is the standard reference on the history of the Netherlands during

World War II World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the World War II by country, vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great power ...

. The NIOD had recently made an electronic edition of the entire work, available for downloading from 11 December 2011, licensed under

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CC BY 3.0. It also performed a study into the

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of 1995, which led to the report ''Srebrenica: a 'safe' area'', which led to the resignation of the

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Other publications

* Post, Peter / Gijsbers, Harco: ''The Encyclopedia of Indonesia in the Pacific War''. Publisher: Brill, Leiden/Boston, 2010. * Withuis, Jolande / Mooij, Annet (eds.): ''The Politics of War Trauma, The Aftermath of World War II in Eleven European Countries''. Publisher: Aksant, Amsterdam, 2010. * Boender, Barbara / Haperen, Maria van / Üngör, Ugu: ''The Holocaust and other genocides. An introduction''. Publisher: Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam, 2012. * Adler, Nanci: ''Keeping Faith with the Party: Communist Believers Return from the Gulag''. Publisher: Indiana University Press, Bloomington, 2012. * Keizer, Madelon de (ed.) / Bakker, Marjo (ed.) / Griffin, Roger (ed.): ''Fascism. Journal of Comparative Fascist Studies''. Publisher: Brill, Leiden, 2012.

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