Definitely. The Netherlands used to be part of the Kingdom of Germany [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Germany], and as such have "Germanic" origins. Linguistically, both Dutch and German (as well as English) belong to the West Germanic languages...
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