Take a look at the beta version of dw.com. We're not done yet! Your opinion can help us make it better. Jan Bazuin wrote a diary about his experiences during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands, including his time as a forced laborer. Now published as a book, his testimony will also inspire a new app. The Nazis occupied the Netherlands during WWII "Hardly anything special happened today," Jan Bazuin wrote in his diary on Monday, November 20, 1944. It was the [fifth year of World War II](/en/keep-alive-memory-of-wwii-victims-urges-germanys-merkel/a-57469462) , and hunger, cold, and air raid sirens were nothing unique for...