Verzetskrant Het Parool

Immediately after the occupation, the Germans put an end to freedom of the press. Newspapers were only allowed to publish pro-German reports. The illegal press emerged fairly quickly: newspapers, magazines and leaflets, made by the resistance.

Koos Vorrink (1891-1955) was an SDAP (later PvdA) politician. He tried several times to set up an underground newspaper. All attempts failed, however, until he met Frans Goedhart; the collaboration with this journalist led to the creation of the illegal newspaper Het Parool in 1941.
In 1942, several prominent SDAP members went into hiding in Nuenen with Dirk Roosenburg, Berg 46. Among them were Wim Schermerhorn, the first Prime Minister of the Netherlands after the Second World War and Koos Vorrink, editor of Het Parool. The texts for Het Parool were written at this location in Nuenen. Wout de Vries, one of the greats from the Nuenen resistance movement, delivered the reports for them.

The illegal Parool is then distributed in the south via the lines of the underground, by Dirk Roosenburg among others. In Nuenen, Roosenburg has at that time, besides Jews in hiding, also hand grenades in his house. He leaves for England in 1944.

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