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In deze special zijn uitsluitend kleurenfilms uit de jaren 50 te zien, een periode die we jarenlang alleen in zwart-wit kenden.
In the 1990s, the government attempted to reduce the pig herd in the Netherlands by a quarter to tackle the manure problem and minimize the chance of a recurrence of the swine fever disaster. The Pig Farming Restructuring Act shocks the sector and angry farmers flock to The Hague. The pig farmers have only just recovered from a serious outbreak of swine fever and they feel robbed. What became of the Pig Law?
How did we look at the future 50 years ago? In the House of the Future, conceived in the late 1980s by futurologist Chriet Titulaer and realized on the site of Autotron entrepreneur Dirk Lips, visitors could see the gadgets in context. Titulaer's daughter Karen looks back on his mission: explaining science in an understandable way. The twins Rudolf and Robbert Das made futuristic drawings. Their Hill House was also completed later. Artist Constant Nieuwenhuijs, himself inspired by the future, inspired others, such as writer Tonke Dragt. What were we going to do with the time that was freed up thanks to the gadgets?
Writer Ineke Inklare: 'The war has been going on for four years. People are hungry and insecure.' The procession in which the then 8-year-old John Joep Visser is walking is shot at by an English plane. Joop ten Klooster and 17 others are lovingly taken in by a farmer. Others fare less well: Clasien Jacobs sleeps in a stable with mice and rats. When the Arnhem residents return, they find their houses in ruins and looted. The Red Cross starts the Red Cross Aid Campaign, H.A.R.K. Because notables were the first to be served, the abbreviation soon stood for Help to Rich Acquaintances.
Around four thousand Dutch people fought in the Korean War (1950-1953), of whom 125 never returned. The conflict arose because the country became a plaything in the Cold War after 1945. The war began with the invasion of South Korea by the Soviet Union- and Chinese-backed North. In 1953, after a bloody battle, an armistice was concluded. However, peace has still not been signed. The war also never ended for many Dutch Korea veterans. The fallen Dutch are buried in the cemetery in South Korea. Some veterans now, at a very old age, also want to be buried or interred there.
This year marks exactly 25 years since Mayor Patijn kicked off the Gay Games in the Amsterdam ArenA in 1998. The event attracted more than 14,000 participants from 68 countries to Amsterdam, where they could enjoy sports, parties and freedom for a week. . We look back on this event with, among others, Ellie Lust, Humberto Tan and figure skater Edward van Campen, whose participation was canceled at the last minute.
The image of traveling by caravan appears to be changing with the times. Before the war it was only reserved for wealthy eccentrics, but after the war it developed into something for adventurers. With increasing prosperity, 'ordinary' Dutch people are also changing tack. After all, how special is it that you can take your own cozy home with you to distant countries? This gradually makes it a subject of ridicule: look at the bourgeoisie with his shack and his own peanut butter and spuds in the kitchen cupboard. But that image is also not permanent.
Allende's revolution through democracy had received much sympathy worldwide. Several left-wing Dutch politicians and journalists had traveled to Chile to witness his reforms to combat poverty and inequality. After General Pinochet's bloody coup, which was supported by the United States, the Netherlands opened the door wide to Chilean political refugees. Many of them still live here and try to preserve their culture, but the nostalgia for that time and their homeland has always remained.
When they are almost wiped out in the 1986 elections, the small left parties realize that they have to do something. On that election night in 1986, only one seat remains of the pacifist PSP, while the environmentally-oriented PPR still has two. The communist CPN and the evangelical EPP disappear from the House completely. Is collaboration perhaps an idea? A few people from each party secretly meet in Sittard, far away from The Hague. With Ina Brouwer, Andrée van Es, Bram van Ojik, Wim de Boer and Joost Lagendijk, among others, we look back on the process that led to the formation of GroenLinks.
The order for all men aged 17 to 40 to report for work was distributed by pamphlet in Rotterdam and Schiedam in November 1944. This was followed by the largest raid that the Netherlands has seen during the occupation. The then 17-year-old Piet Laban remembers the breathtaking silence in the Feyenoord stadium, where the men are brought together for transport. Koos Bienefelt, then 18 years old, must also immediately go with a German soldier. The father of then 5-year-old Henk Gaertman is also taken away. In 1945, his mother sent Henk to the dock every day to see if his father had returned, but that did not happen.
In the 70s and 80s it suddenly seems like a rage: children are dying running away from home. Teenagers are at odds with their parents about drugs, boyfriends, long hair and religion, among other things. They can contact alternative aid organizations, such as the Youth Advice Center (JAC). The interests of the minor come first. Not always enough from parents who are told by the JAC that their kind is housed at a secret address. As a JAC employee, Peter Rombouts sometimes offered shelter to young people and was arrested by the police for 'withdrawal from parental authority'. Ringo lived on the streets from the age of 15 and received help from the JAC.
