Find out how they write about Mulisch

I had to waite fot 2 hours at airport Gatwick today. So I had time to read a lot of newspapers. In the Times I read a big in memoriam of Mulisch. It's always different to read about a Dutch writer in another country, but when someone died, it's more special.
What do they write about most?
They tell about his parents, and how Mulisch's mother surveived the war because of his father.
They quote Mulisch saying: 'I am the Second World War'.
They mention Mulisch's breakthrough with The Assault and how he report on the trial of Eichmann (great book, I have to read that again).
But most special is the way they end the article:

His dead, at a time of enormous transformation in the affairs of his country, brings to an effective end a lenghthy chapter in the literary history of the Netherlands. No longer is the Nazi occupation the Year Zero of Dutch political calculation. Other factors, most obviously immigration and the emergence of a large Muslim minority, have overtaken memories of occupation, collaboration, resistance and the Holocaust. But in the history of time now passing, Mulisch will always have an honoured place.

  Maybe the British see things better than we do. Or are they wrong?