Abstract
Specialty of plastic and reconstructive surgery was officially recognised in Holland in 1950, the same year in which Dr. C.F. Koch, the doyen and the first post-war specialist in this branch of surgery, founded on his own initiative the Dutch Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery. Charles Koch was already a busy general surgeon in Zeeland when the Wehrmacht invaded Holland, but he attached himself to a French battalion and managed to escape to England where he was persuaded by Archibald McIndoe to gain experience in plastic surgery. When Koch returned to Amsterdam after the Second World War, little was known in Holland of another Dutch pioneer in this branch of surgery, Johannes Esser, largely because he had spent most of his working life outside his native country.
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