Liberation of the Netherlands
1944–1945 · Event
From the Scheldt to the Hunger Winter's end, the First Canadian Army frees the Netherlands — repaid every spring since with a hundred thousand Dutch tulips for Ottawa.
On these timelines: Canada, Master, World War II
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