The Bijzonder Gerechtshof (Dutch for "Special Court of Justice") was a special court that was established in the Netherlands to try defendants accused having committed high treason, treason and war crimes immediately after the country’s liberation during the Second World War.
The records of the Special Court, comprising the files of roughly 300,000 individuals who were suspected of collaborating with the Germans, make up the Centraal Archief Bijzondere Rechtspleging (CABR), Dutch for "Central Archive for Special Jurisdiction", stored at the National Archives of the Netherlands.
[1] In February 2023, a project (Oorlog voor de Rechter, or "War in Court") was started aiming to digitise the entire CABR in order to make the archive digitally accessible to a wide audience.
The project is a joint project by the National Archives, the Dutch Network of War Collections, the Huygens Institute, and the NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide.
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