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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Mike Corder

Veterans light flame as the Netherlands marks 80th anniversary of liberation from WWII occupation

EU Netherlands Commemoration - (Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All rights reserved)

Dozens of World War II veterans were gathering Monday in a central Dutch town to mark the 80th anniversary of the Netherlands' liberation by Allied troops from Nazi German occupation.

Festivities in Wageningen centered on a square outside the Hotel de Wereld, where German top brass signed papers on May 5, 1945, that formally ended the occupation as the war drew to a close across Europe.

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