Anton Roothaert, the author of the Dutch novel, “Doctor Vlimmen, ” now a Dutch film which has just won a Gold Award at the Miami Film Festival, was notorious for his Nazi sympathies both before and during World War II. From the early 1930s till his death in 1967, Roothaert lived in Belgium as he was persona non grata in The Netherlands. In addition to his “Doctor Vlimmen” series he also wrote some novels that are outspokenly anti-Semitic.
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