[Herzogenbusch concentration camp. N.S.B.] Archive Andreas Johannes de Lange (1925-1984)

Modern ringbinder with inserted ± 100 letters, (legal) documents, newspaper articles and several other pieces, mostly related to the N.S.B. and N.S.K.K. member Andreas Johannes de Lange of Gouda and his post-war imprisonment at Herzogenbusch (Kamp Vught), Duindorp (Scheveningen), etc.

Also contains pieces conc. family members of De Lange, and a series of (mostly post-war) ration cards. The interesting archive was organised in the early 21st century by Andreas's daughter Yvonne de Lange. The archive includes written letters by her from 2001, with information requests to the Nederlands Instituut voor Oorlogsdocumentatie regarding her father. The requested information is present in photocopy, incl. the charge of 20 December 1945, with the statement by Andreas de Lange: "Begin 1943 heb ik mij vrijwillig gemeld voor dienstneming bij de N.S.K.K. [Nationalsozialistisches Kraftfahrkorps] omdat ik veel voor die organisatie voelde. Tot het einde van de oorlog ben ik in dienst van de N.S.K.K. geweest, respectievelijk als Anwärter tot 2 april 1943, als Sturmmann tot 28 april 1944, als Obersturmmann tot 9 november 1944, als Rottenführer tot 1 april 1945 en als Obergefreiter tot de capitulatie van Duitschland. (...) Ik droeg de uniform van de N.S.K.K. en was bewapend met karabijn en bajonet. (...) Mijn ouders kregen extra levensmiddelenkaarten [1x included in the archive], kolen en eten uit de N.S.V. keuken omdat ik bij de N.S.K.K. in dienst was. Gelijk met mijn aanmelding voor de N.S.K.K. heb ik mij aangemeld als sympathiseerend lid van de N.S.B., daar men mij had verteld, dat dit nodig was om bij de N.S.K.K. te komen. (...)." De Lange then mentions that he was automatically transferred as a regular member of the N.S.B. and never rescinded his membership. He also states that National Socialism did not bring what it promised. As an employee of Plateelbakkerij Zuid-Holland, he had been led to National Socialism by his superior Schwarze by means of propaganda. The archive contains vivid letters from De Lange to his family ("lieve ouders, broers en zusje") and the subsequent answers, from 1945-1946, from Kamp Vught and Gevangenkamp Duindorp at Scheveningen. A proof of dismissal from the Tehuis voor Jeugdzorg in Rotterdam shows that De Lange was not released until 14 September 1948. From several newspaper articles it appears that De Lange together with 2 other collaborators had been involved in a skirmish in December 1942, leading to the arrest of the Jewish E. Mayer, who was then transported to Auschwitz from which he never returned.