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Holland

Crime

How a Notorious Gangster Was Exposed By His Own Sister

She secretly recorded her brother, Holland’s most notorious criminal, confessing to multiple murders. Will he exact revenge?

Patrick Radden Keefe New Yorker Aug 2018 45min Permalink

Crime

The Spy With No Name

In 1977, Johanna van Haarlem finally tracked down the son, Erwin, she had abandoned as a baby 33 years earlier. She immediately travelled to London to meet him. It was the perfect cover.

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Adapted from The Spy With No Name.

BBC Jeff Maysh Jan 2017 10min Permalink

World

The Traffic Guru

A Dutch traffic engineer showed that streets without signs are safer than those cluttered with arrows, painted lines, and lights.

Tom Vanderbilt Wilson Quarterly Jun 2008 25min Permalink

World

The Integrationist

Job Cohen, the current mayor of Amsterdam, is leading the Dutch race for Prime Minister on a platform of racial integration that could transform the relationship between European politics and immigration.

Russell Shorto New York Times Magazine May 2010 Permalink