The internment camp on the Levantkade in Amsterdam. In the large warehouses on the Levantkade in Amsterdam where once the shiploads were piled up, now lie on straw behind barbed wire the thousands of NSB members, provocateurs and collaborators, who were arrested in the days of liberation. All of these people, of course, are innocent by their own admission, they have all helped people in hiding get bicycles and food cards, and none of them understands why he or she has been arrested. The prisoners are housed in sheds under the direction of a shed commander. The former mayor of Amsterdam, Voûte, is one of them. About 4,200 prisoners are now locked up and this number is still rising every day. There is room for 30,000 people. They worked hard to bring the camp up to standard hygienically by building latrines, washing facilities, etc. Light and heavy cases, everything is mixed up waiting for their case to be handled. Only persons over 70 years of age are sent home. Photo: Trapped [female] NSB men on their way to work. The men are busy putting straw in front of the sleeping quarters., June 1945, wars, war, The Netherlands, 20th century press agency photo, news to remember, documentary, historic photography 1945-1990, visual stories, human history of the Twentieth Century, capturing moments in time
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