A German Sympathizer

Excerpt 13: the Depression hit Friesland hard too, only to be followed by WWII. Meindert Boorsma becomes its unfortunate victim twice over.

“Meindert, you’re turning into quite a young man, you should become a member of the NSB [National Socialist Movement] like your dad!” The encouragement comes from farm wife Tryntsje Deddes, the wife of Rintsje Haagsma, born in 1890, stockbreeder on the Tow Road in Workum. Haagsma and his wife don’t just say it, they shout it from the roof: on the black roof tiles of the barn red letters proclaim: N S B, letters large enough for people in Parrega, two kilometers away, to read.
“I’m not doing anything, Mrs. Haagsma!” Meindert doesn’t want to belong to anything.” …

Lês fierder by Henry Baron