How My Great-grandfather Stole From the Nazis He stole all kinds of things back that they took from the Dutch people In World War II, my great-grandfather, the father of my grandmother, stole from the Nazis. On the 10th of May 1940, the Germans invaded the Netherlands after the Dutch had decided to stay neutral in the war. Adolf Hitler ordered the invasion of the Netherlands on Friday. The Germans quickly overran the poorly armed Dutch army. The Battle of The Hague, in which German airborne troops aimed, among other things, to capture the Dutch Royal House and the government,...