Operation Black Tulip was a plan proposed in 1945, just after the end of World War II, by the Dutch minister of Justice Hans Kolfschoten to forcibly deport all Germans from the Netherlands.
After World War II, the Netherlands was a country in ruins and the major pre-war trade links with Germany and Indonesia were severed.
Because of the importance of trade with Germany, the proposed demand for compensation (25 billion guilders — ten times the actual damage) was dropped.
[citation needed] The operation started on 11 September 1946 in Amsterdam, where Germans and their families were taken from their homes in the middle of the night and given one hour to collect fifty kilograms of luggage.
A 2005 episode of the Dutch TV show Andere Tijden focused on the events, and in 2013 journalist Ad van Liempt, who had worked on the Andere Tijden documentary, published on it in his study of the postwar years Na de bevrijding: de loodzware jaren 1945-1950.