Author: MUSSERT, A.A.,
Title: De plannen voor de scheepvaartverbinding Amsterdam-Rijn : historisch overzicht en beschouwingen. Met overzichtskaart.
Description: Utrecht, L.E. Bosch, September 1929, (8)+72,xivpp. original paper softcover binding, large fold out map, this treatise was written by engineer Anton Adriaan Mussert who would become the leader of the Dutch nazi party (NSB) in the years before and during the Second World war. He would be executed for collaboration with the German occupiers. However his plan for the Amsterdam-Rijn Kanaal was adopted and executed. The canal that still exists and is an important connection for water transport in The Netherlands. Anton Adriaan Mussert (11 May 1894 - 7 May 1946) was a Dutch politician who co-founded the National Socialist Movement in the Netherlands (NSB) in 1931 and served as its leader until the party was banned in 1945. As such, he was the most prominent Dutch fascist before and during World War II. Mussert collaborated with the German occupation government, but was granted little actual power and held the nominal title of Leider van het Nederlandsche Volk ("Leader of the Dutch People") from 1942 onwards. In May 1945, as the war came to an end in Europe, Mussert was captured and arrested by Allied forces. He was charged and convicted of treason, and was executed in 1946. Bookplate of G.P. van de Ven.

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