An aside: This person was not meant to cosplay the joker and should really have gone for a more distinguished look: The Penguin.
No it hasn’t, almost nobody in holland actually knows the story or cares.
What is more, the de Witt brothers were more like moderate statesmen who were progressive and not even that rich in comparison. They were besieged by Orangist who were paid for and cheered on by the King who wanted these progressives out of his way.
So in all it was more like the rich setting up the poor to besiege the moderates ( and, yes, the lynching led to peasants actually taking bites)
did we not eat someone else also?
My kids learned about it in school. So I kind of figure that everyone who went to school in Holland knows about it. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I’m basing this on street interviews they did on the “Geschiedenis inside” podcast, “Johan de Witt: Het Rampjaar, fake news en moord”, I haven’t found it in the history books of my own kids (yet) – and I, can’t remember ever learning about it in school. But I’ll admit this is all anecdotal up to a point.
Still, I – with a higher then average interest in history – learned about the story of the lynching and subsequent biting and “eating” of the de Witt brothers from internet memes. Having said that, it was also in “the story of holland”, and in the podcast I mentioned, so it might very well be that the story has gotten more traction over the years
In the 17th century AD, Dutch political partisans ambushed and killed their prime minister, De Witt, and his brother, and ate one(?) of their organs - liver, maybe?
