In South Africa, the Second Boer War (1899–1902) between the British government and the settlers of Dutch descent caused anti-Dutch sentiment in the English-speaking population,[4] and it was identified with the Unionist Party.
The neutrality maintained by the Netherlands during the First World War evoked unfavourable comment in Britain, as was epitomised by a remark in Punch: Holland is a low country, in fact it is such a very low country that it is no wonder that it is dammed all round.During the Second World War, the Nazi Germany occupiers in Belgium promoted the use of Dutch in communities of French-speakers, which led to strong anti-Dutch sentiment there.
Anti-Dutch sentiment is now mainly based on old war propaganda like the South Sulawesi campaign of 1946–1947 in which Abdul Kahar Muzakkar claimed Captain Raymond Westerling had killed 40,000 civilians.
[10] It was used by Sukarno to motivate Indonesians to support the Trikora campaign for the colonisation (called "liberation" in Indonesia) of West New Guinea.
Sukarno said, "Today we all remember the details of 40,000 people of South Sulawesi as victims of the inhumanity of the Dutch colonial army under the command of Westerling.