The real Soldier of Orange

He was perhaps the most well-known resistance hero of the 1939-45 war in the Netherlands: Erik Hazelhoff Roelfzema. People know of him primarily from the book, Soldier of Orange, and the film of the same name, which was directed by Paul Verhoeven and starred Rutger Hauer and Jeroen Krabbé. The book and film described how a motley group of university students fought against (in some cases, for) the German occupation. He died last Wednesday in Hawaii, where he had lived for the past 30 years.

Obituary (in Dutch)