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Professor doctor and resistance fighter
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Gerrit Menne Hendrik (Henk) Veeneklaas (21 February 1909 - 1 August 1991)
was a Dutch military doctor/nurse before and during World War II. He was
also a resistance fighter during the war and was dropped in occupied
Netherlands on 9 September 1944 on behalf of the
Bureau Bijzondere Opdrachten (BBO),
the Dutch equivalent of the
Special Operations Executive (SOE),
during which time he was known under the aliases
David van Eyck
[1],
Dokter X and Dokter V.
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After the war, Veeneklaas established himself as a well respected
pediatrician who introduced a variety of new treatments in The Netherlands.
In 1951 he was appointed professor of pediatrics
at the University of Leiden (Netherlands).
Veeneklaas is also one of the founding fathers of the secret Dutch
Stay-Behind Organisation (SBO)
Operatiën en Inlichtingen, or O&I,
that existed during the Cold War from 1946 to 1992. With the lessons
learned from WWII, it was his idea to establish a secret underground
movement that could be kicked into action in the event of a war with
the Soviet Union (USSR), something that was considered extremely
likely at the time [1].
He presented his ideas to Prins Bernhard, who put him in contact with
Louis Einthoven,
another former resistance member who had
become the head of the
Bureau Nationale Veiligheid
(BNV, now: AIVD),
the civil Dutch Intelligence Agency.
Einthoven allowed him to form the post-war equivalent of the BBO,
which would later become known as the O-service of the
O&I organisation.
➤ Stay-behind organisation O&I
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