On May 6, 1945, in a hotel at Wageningen, General Blaskowitz, commanding the German 21st Army, surrendered all the German forces in the Netherlands to Lieutenant-General Charles Foulkes.

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On May 6, 1945, in a hotel at Wageningen, General Blaskowitz, commanding the German 21st Army, surrendered all the German forces in the Netherlands to Lieutenant-General Charles Foulkes.

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