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From May 1975 the new goverment led by Prime Minister Koen Haverman, himself a veteran of the war, began what it called a “Scale down”. This scaledown was however not peaceful it was a scorched earth campaign. Malakka at that moment knowing what was to come declared itself independent on July 8th, 1975, this was the first sign of what the last months of the war were to be like. The Dutch began a scale down which came down to a withdrawal, the KNIL in these last months were to be the crack forces that held the line fighting as at the same time the Rebels began a grand offensive which was held back and repelled but the rebels now gave it they’re all. From November 1975 all the way up to February 1976 Dutch & KNIL forces withdrew but held the rebels off giving time and space for Dutch, Taulanders, Amerikaeners, Afrikaners, Eurasians, and others to flee from Sumatra Borneo and Celebs, and eventually, they held only to the ports and like the rest of the cities and infrastructure has bombed the ground once the last boat left. What followed in the cities on the islands once the rebels got their hands on it was pure slaughter and mass killings were started. |
From May 1975 the new goverment led by Prime Minister Koen Haverman, himself a veteran of the war, began what it called a “Scale down”. This scaledown was however not peaceful it was a scorched earth campaign. Malakka at that moment knowing what was to come declared itself independent on July 8th, 1975, this was the first sign of what the last months of the war were to be like. The Dutch began a scale down which came down to a withdrawal, the KNIL in these last months were to be the crack forces that held the line fighting as at the same time the Rebels began a grand offensive which was held back and repelled but the rebels now gave it they’re all. From November 1975 all the way up to February 1976 Dutch & KNIL forces withdrew but held the rebels off giving time and space for Dutch, Taulanders, Amerikaeners, Afrikaners, Eurasians, and others to flee from Sumatra Borneo and Celebs, and eventually, they held only to the ports and like the rest of the cities and infrastructure has bombed the ground once the last boat left. What followed in the cities on the islands once the rebels got their hands on it was pure slaughter and mass killings were started. |
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Eventually, by October 1976 the Dutch forces all across Java were centered around Batavia. Operation |
Eventually, by October 1976 the Dutch forces all across Java were centered around Batavia. Operation “Thuiskomst” or homecoming was launched by the navy to get all the civilians and loyalists out as the remainder of Java fell to the rebels and it was one big bloodbath. Dutch forces held the line against repeated Rebel assaults, rescue operations across the islands were launched by the navy and remainder army units to get all Dutch loyalists out. For despite scaling down the navy in the area still had supremacy. In total in these last months of fighting 67.000 rebels, regulars died fighting, and across the island of Java millions, more died in purges, and the chaos that ensued entire KNIL units went rogue and killed hundreds of thousands in revenge. Eventually, by the 11th of November at 23:48, the last boat the destroyer “Blauwe Maan” left filled to the brim with civilians as the port finally fell to the rebels. This marked the end of 370 years of the Dutch presence in the east indies |
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The scale of fighting was enormous the Dutch military had grown from a medium-sized force of around 310.000 active troops in 1960. To a military that was by 1973 unrivaled in its quality of fighting troops having the 4th largest military. In total, in 1973 440.000 Dutch combat troops were deployed, and the army had 2.7 million manpower in available inactive reserves. The Rebels were in 1973 able to field 1.2 million regular troops and 7.1 million guerilla fighters. The war exacted an enormous human cost: It’s estimated that a total of 19/21 million Civilians, 98% of natives died in the conflict, a total of 144,918 Dutch soldiers died in the conflict, with 49,000 missing in action. The rebels their losses are not well known but estimated to be in the 7 million range. fatalities that resulted from the war, due to the use of chemical weapons and Napalm, the famines after the war are likely to inflate the numbers even more. The war her environmental cost was massive and beyond repair jungles were burned to the ground and entire species went extinct as their biomes were destroyed. The economic damage has been extensive when the Dutch left nothing of the infrastructure on the islands was left |
The scale of fighting was enormous the Dutch military had grown from a medium-sized force of around 310.000 active troops in 1960. To a military that was by 1973 unrivaled in its quality of fighting troops having the 4th largest military. In total, in 1973 440.000 Dutch combat troops were deployed, and the army had 2.7 million manpower in available inactive reserves. The Rebels were in 1973 able to field 1.2 million regular troops and 7.1 million guerilla fighters. The war exacted an enormous human cost: It’s estimated that a total of 19/21 million Civilians, 98% of natives died in the conflict, a total of 144,918 Dutch soldiers died in the conflict, with 49,000 missing in action. The rebels their losses are not well known but estimated to be in the 7 million range. fatalities that resulted from the war, due to the use of chemical weapons and Napalm, the famines after the war are likely to inflate the numbers even more. The war her environmental cost was massive and beyond repair jungles were burned to the ground and entire species went extinct as their biomes were destroyed. The economic damage has been extensive when the Dutch left nothing of the infrastructure on the islands was left intact and the cities were in literal ruins, only recently have they started to recover. |
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For the Netherlands, the war’s end meant that it had an entire generation a total of 4.7 million men almost if not more that had seen war. This had shocked the nation and in the years following the war, it dealt with refugees coming in from the east, the reformation of the Dutch power structure economy, and a broken generation that tried to move on from this brutal conflict that had shaped the nation. It became a neutral nation and with a massive arms industry due to the war only began to reform its economy away from those things where possible. Its aerospace industry became focused on civilian products while still retaining the advanced and experienced from the war. It changed the balance of power in Europe with it becoming neutral and taking the |
For the Netherlands, the war’s end meant that it had an entire generation a total of 4.7 million men almost if not more that had seen war. This had shocked the nation and in the years following the war, it dealt with refugees coming in from the east, the reformation of the Dutch power structure economy, and a broken generation that tried to move on from this brutal conflict that had shaped the nation. It became a neutral nation and with a massive arms industry due to the war only began to reform its economy away from those things where possible. Its aerospace industry became focused on civilian products while still retaining the advanced and experienced from the war. It changed the balance of power in Europe with it becoming neutral and taking the german states that bordered it with it into neutrality. |
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== Background == |
== Background == |
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