175, 176 'Police operations'

The end of the Second World War marked the start of an extended decolonization process. The Netherlands long resisted Indonesian independence and conducted several military operations in 1947-1949. Dutch communists opposed government policy.

CPN Campaign Dutch East Indies: Consultation instead of violence
Cor Vree
Amsterdam: CPN De Waarheid, ca 1949
Poster, 41 x 57
BG D2/601

CPN celebrating May Day
Amsterdam, 1 May 1946
Photograph, 25 x 20
BG B17/447