Secondary sources

This thesis examines the relationships between Australian troops of the British Commonwealth Occupation Force (BCOF) and Japanese citizens during the Allied Occupation of Japan following World War Two (1945 – 1952). Literature regarding the Allied Occupation of Japan largely focuses on the United States and its role in the development of post-war Japan’s politics and foreign relations. This extends to social and cultural histories, which focus on the fraternisation involving American GIs. The BCOF was, in contrast ‘the forgotten force’. In comparison to the United States, the BCOF established strict guidelines towards fraternisation.
However, this thesis argues that these guidelines did nothing to stop fraternisation with the local Japanese population. Using archival evidence, memoirs, media and existing research, this thesis analyses and discuss Australian troops and their interactions with Japanese citizens.

This article examines Dutch soldiers’ amateur photographs from the Indonesian National Revolution and their use as evidence of extreme violence. It argues for broader study of photographic archives while considering how Indonesians may view their ancestors as victims, perpetrators or both, and raises ethical questions about the ownership and reproduction of such images.

Oil fields can easily turn into battlefields. This happened more than once in the former colony of the Dutch East Indies (Nederlands-Indië, now Indonesia) in the turmoil of the 1940s, when Japanese, Dutch, Allied, and Indonesian forces fought fierce battles over the control of
local oil facilities—with good reason, because in the 1940s the Dutch East Indies was one of the world’s biggest oil exporters. Centered on the oil industry city of Plajoe, this portion of the global petroleumscape, a multilayered network of spaces made possible by petroleum
and facilitating its flow, was designed to support a country on the other side of the world.
It was then reshaped by war and revolution, in the context of changing global actors. This chapter tells a largely unknown story about the construction, destruction, and reconstruction of the petroleumscape in what is now the province of South Sumatra in Indonesia. It is
a story of how oil fields can become battlefields and of how even in peacetime a petroleumscape is shaped by attempts to protect and defend sources of wealth and power.

Between 1945 and 1949, Indonesia defended its recently declared independence, and the Netherlands waged its last major colonial war. Much is now
known about this war, but a great deal has also remained unclear or contested. At the end of 2016, the second Rutte cabinet decided to finance a broad-based study on the Dutch military conduct during this conflict. This book presents the conclusions of that study.

This dissertation examines diverse foreign women who contributed to Indonesia’s formation as an independent nation, often alongside Indonesian leftist husbands. It explores their political and personal motivations, transnational identities, activism, citizenship and sense of belonging within the wider contexts of decolonisation, the Cold War and the Third World.

The motor ship Johan van Oldenbarnevelt, widely remembered as the JVO, was one of the most important vessels in the history of post-war Dutch migration to Australia.

Originally built as a prestigious passenger liner for the Netherlands–East Indies service, she subsequently served as an Allied troopship before being converted to carry emigrants. Between 1950 and 1958 she operated under charter in the Australian migrant trade, bringing thousands of Dutch and other European emigrants to Fremantle, Melbourne and Sydney.

After the migrant charter ended, Johan van Oldenbarnevelt continued visiting Australia as a passenger and round-the-world liner until 1963. For the families who travelled aboard her, the ship became closely associated with departure from the Netherlands and the beginning of a new life in Australia.

How the civil-military role of the KNIL has changed, and how it affected the Dutch East Indies

David Van Reybrouck’s *Revolusi* traces Indonesia’s struggle for independence from Dutch colonial rule, the Japanese occupation and the revolution of 1945–49. Drawing on extensive research and eyewitness testimony, it places the conflict within the wider history of colonialism, nationalism and global decolonisation.

Diary February 13, 1942 - January 8, 1945 of Mr. EB van Dam (March 15, 1899 - October 7, 1970)
 

The BPM employee in Pladjoe, Emanuel Benjamin van Dam (Groningen, 1899), was interned in the Mulo school in Palembang in April 1942, in the Prison in Palembang from April 15, 1942, and in January 1943 in Poentjak Sekoening in Palembang. From September 1943 in the Prison in Muntok and from March 1945 in Belalau. In September 1945, he was transferred to hospitals in Johor Baru and Singapore.

The Snowy Mountains Hydro-Electric Scheme occupies a central place in Australia’s postwar history. Conceived as a nation-building project, it reshaped Australia’s energy and water systems while simultaneously transforming the country’s demographic profile. Between the late 1940s and the 1970s, the Scheme attracted tens of thousands of workers, the majority of whom were migrants from Europe.

Among them were Dutch migrants who arrived in Australia during the large postwar migration wave of the 1950s. Although never organised as a distinct national contingent, Dutch workers formed a visible and active part of the Snowy workforce and the communities that developed around it. Their involvement illustrates how Dutch migration combined labour, social life and long-term settlement in Australia.