Hotel de Wereld -Wageningen, The Netherlands
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N 51° 58.050 E 005° 40.049
31U E 683240 N 5760784
Site of the capitulation of the German troops in the Netherlands on 5 and 6 May 1945.
Waymark Code: WM11M91
Location: Gelderland, Netherlands
Date Posted: 11/11/2019
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Hotel de Wereld (meaning Hotel The World) in Wageningen was the site of the capitulation of the German troops in the Netherlands on 5 and 6 May 1945, and the end of German occupation during World War II.
On 6 May 1945, the German general Blaskowitz surrendered to the Canadian general Charles Foulkes, which ended the Second World War in the Netherlands. The Generals negotiated the terms of surrender in the Hotel de Wereld.
This historic event is remembered annually.
Historic baackground
When British Field Marshal Montgomery reached Lübeck and the Baltic Sea in the beginning of May 1945, the German troops in Denmark and part of The Netherlands were isolated from their homebase. Without major fights, they surrendered to Montgomery on May 4 at Lüneburg Heath. On 5 May 1945 the negotiation for the surrender of the Germans in the Netherlands took place in the hotel. The Canadian general Charles Foulkes, Canadian general George Kitching, Prince Bernhard, German general Johannes Blaskowitz and German general Paul Reichelt were present at the negotiation. On 6 May 1945 the official signing of the capitulation act took place in the Aula of the Landbouwhogeschool next to the hotel. The pen used to sign can be seen in the local museum the Casteelse poort (English: Castles gate).
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