The names of Nazi collaborators have been published online in the Netherlands for the first time. The archive, consisting of 32 million pages, includes about 425,000 mostly Dutch people who were investigated for collaboration with German occupiers during the Second World War.

Dutch privacy laws shielded the names from public view until the end of 2024. A massive trove of documents about suspected Nazi collaborators in the Netherlands is now open to the public for the first time.

Some uncomfortable family histories may be unearthed in the Netherlands, where a digitized list of suspected Nazi collaborators during World War II has just been made public. The names of about 425,000 people are in the database digitized by the Huygens Institute,

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