Editing Brill Publishers (section)

===Public limited company and World War II, 1896–1945===
In 1896, Brill became a public limited company, when E.J. Brill's successors, A. P. M. van Oordt and Frans de Stoppelaar, both businessmen with some academic background and interest, died. A series of directors followed, until Theunis Folkers took over the reins in 1934.{{sfn|van der Veen|2008|p=108}} At the time, the annual turnover was 132,000 guilders.{{sfn|van der Veen|2008|pp=103 and 109}} His directorship marked a period of unprecedented growth in the history of the company, due to a large extent to Folkers' cooperation with the German occupying forces during [[World War II]]. For the Germans, Brill printed foreign-language textbooks so that they could manage the territories they occupied, but also military manuals, such as "a manual which trained German officers to distinguish the insignias of the Russian army".{{sfn|van der Veen|2008|p=108}} By 1943, the company's turnover had reached 579,000 guilders.{{sfn|van der Veen|2008|pp=103 and 109}}