Robert van Genechten

Robert van Genechten (25 October 1895 – 13 December 1945) was a Belgian-born Dutch politician, writer, Nazi sympathizer, and a leading collaborator during the German occupation of the Netherlands.

Early years Van Genechten was born in Antwerp and studied jurisprudence at the University of Ghent.

After the Imperial German forces invaded Belgium in the Great War, Van Genechten wasted no time in collaborating with the occupying German forces. After the armistice and end of the war, he fled to the Netherlands, receiving an eight-year prison sentence in absentia. and an animated cartoon in 1943. Given his pro-Nazi stance, he was interned by the Dutch government in Hoorn prison during the 1940 invasion.

As the occupation of the Netherlands wore on, he fell out of favor with the Germans, and in February 1943 was given the new role of Commissioner for South Holland, a demotion.