Bijzonder Gerechtshof

The Bijzonder Gerechtshof (

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for "Special Court of Justice") was a special

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that was established in the

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to try defendants accused of committing

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and war crimes immediately after the country's liberation during the Second Word War. There were 14,000 such cases, and 145 of them led to

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. Only 42 of those cases actually led to an execution by a

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. They were the last instances of capital punishment in the Netherlands. A few people who were famously sentenced to death and actually executed were Max Blokzijl,

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and Ans van Dijk (the only woman to be executed). {{Europe-law-stub

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