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An analysis of declassified historical documents shows that members of the Dutch Auschwitz Committee, who were classified as an extremist group, were monitored by the secret service
An analysis of 71,000 declassified files produced by former Dutch national domestic security service BVD showed that the service frequently spied on many Jewish Amsterdammers who returned to the Netherlands after World War II. The survivors of the Nazi extermination camps were viewed as "extremists" and a threat to democracy even into the 1980s, according to Parool.