Bernhard, Prince Of Darkness
Bart Smout
About Nothing was what seemed to Gerard Aalders
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Uitgeverij Boom, Amsterdam, 2014,
ISBN 9789461055293 / 464p.
http://www.dereactor.org/home/detail/bernhard_prins_der_duisternis/
To survive, royal houses need two things: a
sophisticated mythology and a people who believe in it.
That mythology does not have to be spot-free,
French thinker Roland Barthes already showed in a
short essay about the romance between RAF pilot
Peter Townsend and British Princess Margaret.
This affair caused quite a stir in the fifties.
Townsend had no noble origins and was also
separated, making Princess Margaret the enfant terrible of the royal family.
Margaret's struggle with the royal straitjacket
is, according to Barthes, a confirmation of this
at the same time. She just reveals 'the serfdom
of the kings'. And it is that serfdom that
strengthens the mythology of the royal family.
Because people may well be untouchedly rich, but
then they have to suffer for that. "Because
wealth is a burden, he becomes ethical," writes
Barthes. A little further you can read: 'Rebels,
in love and still royal, Margaret consolidates
the myth of the monarchy by vaccinating that myth with its own rebellion.'
Mime and rumble are the two legs on which the
myth of the royal family runs. And if there was
someone in the Netherlands who caused a lot of
humiliation and rumbling in royal spheres, then
it is Prince Bernhard (1911-2004). At the same
time, he is still extremely popular to this day.
Even after his death Bernhard continues to speak to the imagination.
The immortal popularity of Prince Bernhard is a
thorn in the eyes of the Dutch historian Gerard
Aalders (1946). Aalders worked for many years as
a researcher for the Netherlands Institute for
War Documentation (NIOD) and over the years,
through books and articles, he regularly paid
attention to Bernhard's many missteps. But a
summarizing biography of the prince was still
missing in Aalders' oeuvre and so he wrote
Nothing was what it seemed , a book that spent
many weeks in the non-fiction top 10 of the CPNB.
It is not strange. It was not what it seemed like
is a historical biography that reads like a
schelmen novel and contains more juicy scandals
than all Dutch gossip magazines combined. The
emphasis on the scandals from Bernhard's life is
a conscious choice, according to Aalders'
introduction. "It was not my intention to make a
biography that covers all aspects of a life,"
writes the historian. "The basic idea was to
summarize Bernhard's trials chronologically
thematically, with an emphasis on the many large,
but also smaller - say -" missteps "he had
committed during his lifetime; a "strapatography". '
Such a 'strapatography' is much needed according
to Aalders, because according to him the public
image of Bernhard is based on nothing but lies.
Under the widely supported image of Bernhard as a
resistance hero and charismatic leader, there is
a stinking reality that has been carefully
covered with the cooperation of ministers and the
Government Information Service. "If the cover-up
had not existed, he would have been invented for
Bernhard," Aalders writes without hesitation. And:
It is certain that Prince Bernhard was indeed
very charming, charismatic, kind, thoughtful,
committed, humorous and bold. In any case, he
effortlessly aroused the appearance. His dark
sides, on the other hand, remained hidden from
the general public. The husband of our long-term
queen was also a greedy, stingy, selfish,
self-centered and corruptible person. In
addition, he lied and cheated when it came to him.
Bernhard, Aalders wants to say, was a first class
scammer. And with scammers nothing is what it seems.
Nothing was what it seemed to read as a wrecking
ball that is released in an extreme speed on the
mythology surrounding Bernhard. According to
Aalders, the 'real' Bernhard is a kind of evil
genius who knew no scruples. He concluded his
marriage with Juliana solely from opportunism and
everything was permitted when it came to
expanding his power and standing. The lies begin
at his origin. "None of Bernhard's grandfathers
had a royal or princely title, and his father was
no more than Bernhard himself born with a high
title. The later prince of the Netherlands wanted
us to believe that better, but all too well,
"writes Aalders. His youth at the German estate
Reckenwalde, where Bernhard grew up together with
his brother Aschwin, was a lot shabby than he
later suggested. And Bernhard's alleged sporting
slant can not be traced back to his childhood:
'Bernhard, who in his later life would gladly
present himself as a born athlete - what his
biographers had written down on his authority -
scored at school for his sporting performances invariably "defective". "."
Then of course there is the hot issue of
Bernhard's membership of the NSDAP and its two
subdivisions: the SS and the SA. His NSDAP
membership has always been denied by Bernhard,
but he has not made any secret of his SA and SS
past. According to the prince, these were
necessary because otherwise he could not pass for
his exams. Nonsense, says Aalders. "Bernhard was
a voluntary - and not a forced - Nazi." Bernhard
himself would always have detested National
Socialism himself and entered into his
memberships for purely practical reasons. But
there is no question of 'any form of aversion,' says Aalders.
"Bernhard was continually describing a life he
had never lived, but that put him in a radiant
light," writes Aalders. He was charming, and
convincing; two qualities with which he won
Princess Juliana. On 7 January 1937 they married
in The Hague and Bernhard was given the title
Prince of the Netherlands. 'Bernhard received a
treatment when he came to the Netherlands, which
in our days only received pop stars.'
Bernhard was particularly bored during the first
years of his marriage. But the war brought a
solution. A few days after the German invasion
the prince fled to London, from there to build an
image as a resistance hero. This image is also
not based on anything, according to Aalders.
Bernhard got in the way in London and often turned to alcohol and women.
Here too his lies again led a life of their own.
Thus the prince would have heroically
participated in bombing flights. He would even
have bombed Berlin. The prince, however, never
flown over Germany. In 1944, he did participate
in three missions over France and Italy. 'There
were hardly any dangers associated with this,'
says Aalders. Bernhard did during the war many
pleasure flights to various countries, described
by Aalders as a kind of 'front tourism'. At the
liberation of the Netherlands, Bernhard gladly
drove a jeep through the liberated areas where he
was applauded by frenzied crowds. In this way he
became a resistance hero, but Aalders delicately
points out that Bernhard did not perform any
warrior work during the liberation.
After the war, Bernhard was more popular than
ever. In a rapid pace, according to Aalders, he
developed into a crafty businessman with a preference for cars and planes:
He was soon the largest private car and aircraft
owner in the Netherlands. Some cars were owned,
but most were left by the occupying forces and
attacked the Dutch state as a war booty. Bernhard
did not have a message about that.
To get money, Bernhard acted in airplanes; the
costs he made with his own fleet he unabashedly
declared to the Dutch government, which tacitly
reimbursed the huge expenses. In the meantime,
Bernhard made a lot of traveling and created a
large network. There were not always the freshest
characters in between. From arms dealers to
dictators, Bernhard was not picky. He had mistresses around the world.
Naturally, Aalders also pays extensive attention
to the Hofmans affair . This affair, which
revolved around the prayer healer Greet Hofmans
who had a special bond with Juliana, knew
Bernhard completely to his hand. "The story came
out the way he wanted it. He himself came out
well, while his wife was publicly shamed because
of her contacts with Hofmans and the group around
her. ' The British journalist Sefton Delmer, with
whom Bernhard had a good contact, served as a
conduit for the colored vision of the prince.
Ultimately, only Bernhard's involvement in the
kick-off affair at aircraft manufacturer Lockheed
(he would have received 1.1 million dollars in
bribes) had a slight adverse effect on his public
image, but here too he came out relatively well.
To prevent a crisis within the monarchy, there
was no prosecution, but the prince only had to
take a number of public functions, including that
of Inspector-General of the Armed Forces. Thus
the prince remained on a pedestal until the end of his life.
Nothing was what it seemed like to finally put an
end to the myths surrounding Bernhard and expose
the ugly truth surrounding his person. 'Bernhard
wanted to be buried as laundered as possible in
Delft. This has largely succeeded, though his
image irrevocably fades and the role he has
actually played becomes clearer, 'Aalders writes
at the end. It may be clear that the historian
wants to give that peeling process an extra push
with his book. But the method he has chosen for
this is remarkable to say the least.
As mentioned, Aalders describes his historical
biography as a 'strapatography'. In his preface
he already indicates that it was not his
intention to make a 'biography in which all
aspects of a life are discussed.' Nevertheless,
it remains a strange choice to equate the truth
about a person with a list of all missteps made,
large and small. It leads to a very one-sided
picture. If we have to believe Aalders, Bernhard
has never done anything good in his long life.
In addition, Aalders' frequent use of suggestive
remarks undermines the scientific character of
his book. Aalders writes in a passage about Reich
Chancellor Heinrich Brüning: "Would Bernhard have
been one of the SS men who had guarded him day
and night, as he wrote in his biography? There is
no proof for that, but the possibility is not
excluded. ' And about Bernhard's proposal (not
carried out) to shoot a group of POW's who were
taken prisoner, Aalders remarks the following:
'By the way, Fusillering seemed to fascinate him
in one way or another.' Exemplary is also
Aalder's discussion of the so-called
Stadhoudersbrief , a letter that Bernhard wrote
to Adolf Hitler in 1942, in which he proposed
becoming stadtholder of the Netherlands. The
letter has never been found. Nevertheless,
Aalders pays extensive attention to the rumor.
Aalders acknowledges that its existence has never
been proven. But he can not resist to mention
that at least five people have assured him that the letter does exist.
The unilateral and suggestive approach creates an
almost caricatural image of Bernhard. Thus
Aalders unintentionally replaces one myth by
another. Instead of the prince on the white horse
he makes Bernhard the prince of darkness. With a
black paint roller he brushes away the
"laundered" image of Bernhard and thus tries to expose the truth.
In passing he also reinforces the myth of the
royal family itself. Because, of course, Juliana
paid the toll for Bernhard's straps. She suffered
under Bernhard, but a divorce was out of the question. Aalders:
In 1987 he celebrated what is called a golden
marriage in the language of speech, but in his
case it was not gold that shone, even though the
appearance had stopped. Bernhard and Juliana all
lived in their own wing at Soestdijk Palace.
Soestdijk Palace as a golden cage. Thus Bernhard
also confirms the "serfdom of the kings," as
Barthes described it, and reinforces the
reassuring message that the privilege of innate
wealth is only enjoyed in captivity and, above
all, a burden. Bernhard the dark prince probably
gives the royal house mythology a stronger
impulse than the 'laundered' Bernhard. Behind the
palace walls predominantly sodder and rumbling prevailed and we like to see it.
Aalders unintentionally reaches the opposite of
what he had in mind. Instead of blowing up myths,
he blows new life into it. Thanks to Nothing was
what it seemed , the mythological longevity of
Bernhard and the Dutch royal family has been renewed for a number of years.
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