An extensive report on postwar The Netherlands, its people, cabinet, business and its queen.

Queen Wilhelmina on the cover of TIME magazine in 1946A year ago, when the filthy tide washed back, it was hard to tell what was left of Europe. Would the detritus of Nazi conquest bury a civilization, leaving its survivors in a confused struggle among the ruins? A year later it was still too soon to know. Many glimpses… View large cover