Collaboration enabled the Nazis to murder an estimated three quarters of Dutch Jews, including their most famous victim, Anne Frank, and her family. It was not until 2020 that the Dutch government apologized for failing to protect Jews during the Holocaust, long after other European leaders and after local Jews had requested an apology.

But some in the Netherlands believe that openness about the country’s wartime past, including its economic and bureaucratic collaboration, is crucial. Three-quarters of the Dutch Jewish population — more than 102,000 people — were murdered by the Nazis, with antisemitic collaboration from the state, police and some of the Dutch population.

A Dutch project called 'War in Court' digitally released a list of names of nearly half a million suspected wartime Nazi collaborators on Thursday after the expiry of a law that had restricted public access to the archive.

The names of Dutch people investigated for working with the Nazis during World War 2 are available online for the first time.

The archive contains the names of those investigated as part of a special legal system at the end of World War II in the Netherlands