On Tuesday 8 March, emeritus professors G.H. Bolt and Anton van Diest and Maria Crijns-Herberichs (widow of Dr. Fons Crijns) told their World War II stories at a Studium Generale session. At the start of 1943, Dutch students were require to sign a declaration of loyalty to the Nazi occupiers. Those who refused to sign were put to work or had to go into hiding. Bolt: ‘One professor said, "If you sign before 10 April you are sure to be allowed to carry on with your studies." I didn’t sign but I just took a packet of stencils back home with me to Arnhem, to study on my own. Funnily enough it was a good time in which nothing really happened. Until August 1943.’ Read more about the talk on resource.wur.nl
Students during wartime
One joined the resistance, the other was sent to work in Germany and a third did exams secretly.
