Jan Hartman (Nazi collaborator)

Jan Hartman (1887–1969) was a Dutch fascist and collaborator during World War II.

After the war, he was active in far-right politics, and was one of the two founders of the Stichting Oud Politieke Delinquenten ("Foundation of Former Political Delinquents"; abbreviated SOPD), a right-wing organization founded by and for formerly jailed and convicted war criminals and collaborators.

In the 1930s he joined the NSB and worked in propaganda,[1][2] and in 1941 he volunteered with the Waffen-SS and (like Paul van Tienen) saw action at the Eastern Front.

"[4] In 1952 he and Wolthuis played a never fully explained part in the escape of seven convicted war criminals from the Koepelgevangenis in Breda, including Klaas Carel Faber.

[5] An attempt to found a Jan Hartman House in the 1970s (as a kind of Bronbeek for Eastern Front volunteers) were unsuccessful.