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The '''Stichting Oud Politieke DeliquentenDelinquenten''' ("Foundation for Political Delinquents"; abbreviated '''SOPD''') was a Dutch right-wing organization founded by and for formerly jailed and convicted [[war criminals]], collaborators who were associated with the German overlords during [[World War II]]. The SOPD was the first<ref name="Schans2011">{{cite book|last=Schans|first=Wil van der|title=Monitor Racisme and Extremisme: Extreemrechts in Amsterdam|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=IPPPeLFd9cAC&pg=PA17|accessdate=1 May 2012|date=2011-07-12|publisher=Amsterdam UP|isbn=9789085550495|page=17}}</ref> and the largest of the collaboratist organizations in the country, "numbering perhaps a hundred former internees."<ref name="Art2011"/>
 
The SOPD was founded in 1951 by Jan Hartman, formerly of the [[National Socialist Movement in the Netherlands|NSB]],<ref name="Roos2010">{{cite book|last1=Roos|first1=Jan de|last2=Roos-Van Rooden|first2=Thea|title=Moed en overmoed: een biografie van burgemeester Dirk Frans Pont|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=NIzv8VukcxkC&pg=PA193|accessdate=1 May 2012|year=2010|publisher=Uitgeverij Verloren|isbn=9789087041847|pages=193 n.14}}</ref> the fascist party that allied itself with the German Nazi movement after the [[History of the Netherlands (1939–1945)|occupation of the Netherlands]] in 1939. Hartman became the organization's secretary. A co-founder was the lawyer Jan Wolthuis, another former NSB member who had been a "peace judge" during the German occupation,<ref name="Roos2010"/> essentially a political office meant to render [[Anton Mussert]] immune from prosecution.