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Anton Adriaan Mussert ( May 11 , 1894 - May 7 , 1946 ) was a successful Civil Engineer who worked for the Dutch government. He was one of the founders of the Dutch Fascist Party . He abandoned his engineering career to become its leader. He was the head of the Dutch National Socialist (Nazi) government during the Second World War . He was born in 1894 in Werkendam the province of Noord-Brabant in the Netherlands . In the 1920s he became active in several extreme right organizations such as the Dietsche Bond which advocated a Greater Netherlands including Flanders (Dutch-speaking Belgium ). On December 14 , 1931 he, Cornelis Van Geelkerken and ten others founded the Nationaal-Socialistische Beweging (NSB) or, as it reads out in English , National Socialist Movement. He was received by Pope Pius XI on June 16 , 1936 . Mussert met Hitler in November of 1936 . During World War II he became the leader of the Dutch National Socialist government. An all-Dutch volunteer SS unit, the SS-Freiwilligen-Legion Niederlande was formed in 1941 by Mussert. He was arrested on May 7 , 1945 , tried for his Collaboration in November, and Executed for Treason on May 7 , 1946 in The Hague . SEE ALSO REFERENCES
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