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As for the remaining six political parties, the Germans allowed them into form one new entity called the National Unity Party. The leaders of this party had an impossible balance act to maintain: to promote Dutch interests and yet at the same time not offend the Germans. It proved to be impossible goal and within a year the organization dissolved. There remained but one legal political party: the NSB. Newspapers were subject to heavy censorship and radio stations were all under Nazi control.

In the schools German became for Dutch children the major foreign language of study. New courses began to be taught in the schools, ones which promoted Nazi racial theories. History text books were rewritten, reflecting Nazi thought and deleting any mention to Queen Wilhelmina. Laws had long been enacted prohibiting the displaying of the Queen's portrait; likewise, through out Holland the Germans changed the name of any street which bore her name or that of any living member of the royal family.
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With the Nazis in full control of the media, and the radio now dominated by Nazi propaganda, many Dutch began to turn on the radio to listen broadcasts from London--either to the BBC or to the Dutch government in exile. Such listening was in itself an illegal act and a form of resistance. Dutch newspapers also, as stated earlier, were firmly in the hands of the Germans and their Dutch sympathizers. As a means of disseminating out the truth, several Dutch individuals took it upon themselves to produce and distribute underground papers. This was highly illegal, and many Dutch people were to lose their lives for such activity.