8 Traitors Who Betrayed Their Country in WWII

8 Traitors Who Betrayed Their Country in WWII On December 14, 1931, in the city of Utrecht, a Dutch engineer named Anton Mussert co-founded the Nationaal-Socialistische Beweging, the NSB, the Netherlands' home-grown fascist movement. He modelled it on Hitler's party, wore a similar uniform, and dreamed of leading his country into a new order. When German tanks crossed the Dutch border on May 10, 1940, and the Netherlands fell in just five days, Mussert didn't mourn. He saw opportunity. He had spent nearly a decade building toward this moment, and now the occupiers had arrived.