enhance the murder of the Jews (Croes, 2006, p.474). The use of the NSB, whilst it failed in aiding the policy of Nazification, was successful in aiding their Jewish deportation policy. Having NSB members as provincial leaders, meant that, by September 1943, it was deemed that 8 out of 11 provincial leaders were reliable in carrying out the German’s anti-Jewish policies (Warmbrunn, 1963, p.37). The success of the policy from the Germans perspective can also be due to the failure of the Secretaries – General. They only protested in private, refusing to take any responsibility for what was happening and just resigned themselves to the fact that the Jews had been removed from their control (Griffoen & Zeller, 2006, p.449). A post war commission found that the Secretaries-General had “completely neglected the primary function of the leading civil servants laid down by the Aanwijzingen of 1937 which was to inform the population about the attitude they should take to the German occupying power and its administration” and had too easily complied with the German demands (Hirschfeld, 1988, p.142). As well as the leaders, the Germans were effective in using the Dutch police to help with the capturing of Jews, with 90% of the Amsterdam police co-operating in some way with Jewish detentions (Hirschfield, 1988, p.177). The Dutch population itself also assisted the German policy by helping capture Jews themselves, with more than 2,500 Dutch people being convicted after the war for their involvement (Bovenkerk, 2000, p.250). Whilst there was a proportion of the population that helped endorse the German’s anti-Jewish policies there was also a large amount of opposition to them. However, the opposition was successfully put-down as seen with the February 1941 strikes, which was ruthlessly stopped by the Wehrmacht, forcing the strike to end immediately (Foray, 2010, p.780). Large-scale resistance, as seen in Belgium and France, was not organised until later when most of the Jewish population had already been deported (Blom, 1989, p.342). Overall, from a German perspective, the policy of the deportation of the Jews in the Netherlands was very successful, on account of the effectiveness of the German administration and Dutch Bureaucracy as well as the physical geography of the Netherlands. In conclusion, whilst the German occupation of the Netherlands differed from most other occupations in that the country was grounded by a civilian administration, this did not affect the successful implementation of a number of policies. The least successful policy of the German occupation was their failed attempt at Nazification of the Netherlands. Despite trying to use the national elites, other Nazi policies and the fact that national socialism had no historical roots in the Netherlands meant the D>