Ex.1351-1399. Japanese actions in the Dutch East Indies. War atrocities in the Philippines
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is part of: David Conde fonds
is part of: International Military Tribunal for the Far East
is part of: Prosecution documents and exhibits
creator: Conde, David W.
issued: 2015-03-23
description: 38 items
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note: I •Xq-1?- - ! *+ PERSONAL HISTORY / My name is Klaas A. de ,!7eerd. I am a Major in the Artillery of the reserve of the Royal Netherlands Indies Army. I was born in Roermond, Limburg, the Netherlands, <jn 6 April 1904. I am of Netherlands nationality. After having studied law at the University of Leiden (tha Netherlands) I entered a lawyers' office at Sourabaya (Java) on 28 August 1929 end practised in the Law Courts of East-Java, Bali afld the South East of Borneo until the middle §f 1937. In 1938, after having been on leave in the Netherlands, I was employed for nearly a year in the Labour Office (Labour Legislation Section) of the Department of Justice af the Nether- lands Indies Government at Batavia. From the beginning .̂939 I entered ipto partnership in a lawyers' office at Medan (Sumatra) On the 12th of December 194-1 I was mobilized as an ^ffioer of the reserve of the Royal Netherlands Indies Army a^d served as such with the Staff of the First Division in West-Java. After the capitulation of the Royal Netherlands Indies Army, I became a prisoner of war of the Japanese and was confined in several aamps in West-Java until the middle of September 194-5. From the beginning of this period I acted as Camp translator §f the Java newspapers in the Unlay language. The Japanese «amp authorities allowed T,ralay language newspapers to be brought i»t» the camps until the end of January 194-4. 1 As the situation in the islands interested mo in particular I spent much time in translating these items extensively into Dutch and, together with several friends, I indexed these data according to personalities and to subjects. Our intention wns to prepare several studies concerning the Japanese occupation, treating subjects such as Administration Propaganda, Civil Affairs, Central Government, Labour, Policy, etc. as well as to gather personal data about Japanese authorities Loc. No. 2750 IX I had already prepared notes for several of these studies when it became increasingly dif…
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