Wim Sanders (9 August 1908 – 11 April 1995) was a Dutch politician and World War II resistance fighter.

Sanders obtained his Mulo diploma in 1925 and then got a police job, first in Lonneker as a clerk and later in Enschede as an inspector.

After the German invasion in May 1940 Sanders assisted the occupying forces in the arrest of several Twentse Communists (in June 1941) and Jewish Enschedeers (in September 1941).

They also devoted themselves to wiretapping the Sicherheitsdienst and other German authorities and thus acquired a lot of information about SD infiltrators and other collaborators.

This mass movement tried to give the Dutch people a certain independent position within the limits of the German occupation wind.

Several members of the resistance, including Koos Vorrink (the first chairman of the Partij van de Arbeid), felt that the Nederlandsche Unie had gone too far in its cooperation with the German government.

Sanders, who at the time was already fully engaged in the power struggle with Einthoven, feared that his soft approach to Riphagen could be used against him.

According to the Parool journalists Bart Middelburg and René ter Steege, who wrote a book about Riphagen, Sanders even helped him escape to Germany in a coffin.

In 1996 the book De Affaire-Sanders was published by Netherlands Institute for War Documentation and it's investigator Gerard Aalders and historian Coen Hilbrink.