The depredations against the Indians described by de las Casas were compared to those of Alba and his successors in the Netherlands, and A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies was reprinted 33 times between 1578 and 1648 in the Netherlands (more than in the rest of Europe).[34] The Articles and Resolutions of the Spanish Inquisition to Invade and Impede the Netherlands accused the Holy Office of a conspiracy to starve the Dutch population and exterminate its leading nobles, "as the Spanish had done in the Indies."[35]