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Simon Paulus Olij (5 October 1900,

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– 4 August 1975,

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) was a Dutch

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who attended the

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. During World War II, he was a Nazi collaborator. Olij was later sentenced to death but was reprieved and served a seven-year prison sentence.

Boxing

There he was eliminated in the quarterfinals of the men's heavyweight division by eventual gold medalist Arturo Rodríguez from

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. His result was: (in Dutch) * Round of 16: defeated Joe Goyder (Great Britain) by decision * Quarterfinal: lost to Arturo Rodriguez (Argentina) on points

Nazi collaborator

Olij, and his son Jan, became members of the

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(NSB) during the

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. Olij and his son betrayed and arrested numerous Jewish people who were deported as part of

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. One of them was fellow Jewish Dutch boxing Olympian

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and his family. After the war he was sentenced to death for his role in The Holocaust. However, his sentence was commuted to life imprisonment which itself was repealed. After a psychiatric assessment Olij had his sentence commuted to nine years imprisonment. He was released in June 1954. His son, Jan, while awaiting trial escaped from an internment camp in 1947 and fled to Argentina where he died in 1996.

Later life

Olij died in 1975 in Amsterdam.

References

1900 births 1975 deaths Boxers at the 1928 Summer Olympics Heavyweight boxers Olympic boxers for the Netherlands People from Landsmeer Dutch male boxers Martial artists from North Holland Dutch collaborators with Nazi Germany Dutch people convicted of war crimes Dutch prisoners sentenced to death Holocaust perpetrators in the Netherlands Prisoners sentenced to death by the Netherlands Nazis convicted of war crimes 20th-century Dutch sportsmen {{Netherlands-boxing-bio-stub