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Four million people died in the Dutch East Indies as a result of famine and forced labour during the Japanese occupation, including 30,000 European civilian internee deaths. [3] In 1944–1945, Allied troops largely bypassed the Dutch East Indies and did not fight their way into the most populous parts such as Java and Sumatra. As such, most of ...
The Dutch East Indies fell into Japan's sphere. Dutch East Indies during the Japanese occupation when Japanese Prime Minister Hideki Tojo visited the island of Java. The Netherlands, Britain and the United States tried to defend the colony from the Japanese forces as they moved south in late 1941 in search of Dutch oil.
The Dutch East Indies campaign of 1941–1942 was the conquest of the Dutch East Indies (present-day Indonesia) by forces of the Empire of Japan in the early days of the Pacific campaign of World War II. Allied forces attempted unsuccessfully to defend the islands. The East Indies were targeted by the Japanese for their rich oil resources which ...
The Indies Monument, The Hague. The National Remembrance 15 August 1945 ( Dutch : Nationale Herdenking 15 augustus 1945 ) is an annual event at the Indies Monument in The Hague , the Netherlands , to commemorate the end of the Japanese occupation of the Dutch East Indies and the end of World War II. [ 1 ]
Sir Thomas Stamford Bingley Raffles FRS FRAsS (5 July 1781 – 5 July 1826) [1] [2] was a British colonial official who served as the governor of the Dutch East Indies between 1811 and 1816 and lieutenant-governor of Bencoolen between 1818 and 1824.
The Dutch accused Sukarno and Hatta of collaborating with the Japanese, and denounced the Republic as a creation of Japanese fascism. [48] The Dutch East Indies administration had just received a ten million dollar loan from the United States to finance its return to the Dutch East Indies. [49]
The Dutch East India Company's trading post at Dejima was abolished when Japan concluded the Treaty of Kanagawa with the United States in 1858. This ended Dejima's role as Japan's only window on the Western world during the era of national isolation .
Flag of the governor of the Dutch East Indies: 1928–1949 Flag of the governor of the Dutch East Indies: National tricolour, within the upper-right white canton, two red balls. 1920–1966 Flag of the governor of Curaçao and Dependencies: National tricolour, within the red stripe three white balls. Flag of the governor of Surinam: 1951–1962