All rooms are equipped with an overhead projector
Rooms C, D, E, F, G and H (H only on Saturday): slide projector (framed slides, carrousel. There are extra carrousels available to set up your presentation in advance)
Rooms C, D, M, N, O, U and Committee Room 2: beamer to connect your laptop. You have to bring you own laptop. (If you want to use your Apple notebook, please contact us, as it may be incompatible.)
Rooms C, T and U: VCR
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Contending for Power after the Dutch Liberation
| The liberation may have been the end of the war, it did not mean the end of all problems. The economical system had to be rebuilt, the infrastructure was badly damaged and in need of repair and society and the administration needed to be purged. But first, a new authority had to be established to bring this about. It was not clear which people would hold this new authority and how it would function. In this contribution we examine the groups that contended for power at the liberation in The Netherlands and the bases of their claims. These groups not only comprise armed forces such as the Allied troops, the local resistance and the Dutch Military Authority, of which the latter was officially charged with the civil administration. Also the Dutch government in exile, the prewar political parties and newborn movements for political and moral renewal were among the contendants. They all thought themselves legitimized to play a leading role in the postwar reconstruction of society and the political system. Each group had its own ambitions for the future and tried to realise them by gaining power at or shortly after the liberation. In practice, this led to a contention for power which ended with the restoration of the parliamentarian system and the organisation of the first postwar elections. We make some comparisons with the French situation in the same period.
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