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Combined with the immigration from colonies like Indonesia, Surinam and Netherlands Antilles, the Netherlands was becoming a multicultural country. The worldwide Terrific Depression of 1929 and the early 1930s had crippling effects on the Dutch economy, which lasted longer than they did in most European nations. The depression led to substantial unemployment and poverty, as properly as growing social unrest. The rise of Nazism in Germany did not go unnoticed in the Netherlands, and there was increasing concern over the possibility of armed conflict, but most Dutch citizens believed that Germany would once more respect Dutch neutrality. Throughout the Napoleonic...