Members of the resistance have assassinated the Haarlem chief of police, Fake Ploeg, and his body lies on the street, in front of the Kortewegs’ house, the Steenwijks’ neighbors. (05-03-2014, updated 07-25-2018) In the first episode of The Assault by Harry Mulisch, “1945”, the Steenwijk family is sitting together in their living room in Haarlem one evening during the hunger winter, when they hear shots fired outside. The Assault by Harry Mulisch is divided into five episodes, covering a time span of thirty-six years, in which the protagonist Anton Steenwijk, suffers the violence and guilt of the German occupation of the Netherlands. Time Eternal in The Assault: Events Put in a Larger, Timeless Perspective.
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