Every WWII Traitor Who Thought They Got Away — Until They Didn't

Every WWII Traitor Who Thought They Got Away — Until They Didn't On May 7, 1945, the day Germany formally surrendered, Dutch police arrested Anton Mussert at his home in The Hague. He had not fled. He had not hidden. He had been waiting, apparently confident that the new postwar government would want to negotiate with him, the man who had spent five years helping the Nazis dismantle the country he claimed to love. The audacity of that expectation tells you almost everything you need to know about how completely Mussert had deceived himself about what he had done.