2. Documents NSB archive - van Dijk brothers

These are documents about the Dordrecht brothers Christiaan and Pieter van Dijk, who were shot dead during May 1940 by Dutch soldiers from the 2nd Regiment Wielrijders (Cyclists Regiment). Christiaan was a member of the NSB, but his brother was not. Many details surrounding this incident remain unclear to this day, but at some point, both brothers were arrested suspicion of shooting at soldiers. They were executed withouth trial and their bodies were thrown in the Merwede.

After the events in May, a trial was held the Peace Court (National Socialist legal organ) Lieutenant Colonel Mijsberg was sentenced to twelve years in prison. A soldier from the Motorized Artillery Corps received a four-year prison sentence for perjury. Although it was an NSB-influenced court that conducted the trial and handed down the verdict, and one can assume that the court’s judgment was at least biased, it can be said that it was unjust to arrest and execute the two brothers without any form of due process. To this day, these events have received little attention from independent researchers. The documents are a part of the story^{1 1}.

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