Originally Posted by
Italuminium
Off course! It was for the University paper, both men were law students when the war broke out, and both were member of the same fraternity. Resistance against the Germans broke out after all jewish students and professors were expelled. In the war, the fraternity and other "chapters" of the same kind in other cities like Amsterdam or Delft served as channels for covert actions against the occupying Nazi's.
If someone would like it I could try to translate the articles (I have done another article on a third member of the resistance, that went MIA in the final days of the war.
You must have felt very privileged to have met with and interviewed these men. What an incredible experience they must have had.
I was in Amsterdam on April 30, 1995, when that morning there was a low fly-by of what seemed like dozens of WW2 vintage allied fighters and bombers for Koninginnedag and celebrating the 50th anniversary of the liberation of Amsterdam. The whole city reverberated from the throaty roar of big round radial engines and liquid-cooled Merlin V-12s. I watched in awe through the window of my hotel room.