Restaurated and Colorized excerpts from a Canadian newsreel showing recordings after the liberation of the Netherlands in 1945. People celebrate on the street. Collaborators and Dutch women who had relationships with men of the German occupying force, called “Moffenmeiden“ were abused and humiliated in public, usually by having their heads shaved and painted orange
Background on the liberation: After crossing the Rhine at Wesel and Rees, Canadian, British and Polish forces entered the Netherlands from the east, liberated the eastern and northern provinces. Notable battles during this movement are the battle of Groningen and the battle of Otterlo, both in April 1945.
The western provinces, where the situation was worst, however, had to wait until the surrender of German forces in the Netherlands was negotiated on the eve of 5 May 1945 (three days before the general capitulation of Germany), in the Hotel de Wereld in Wageningen. Previously the Swedish Red Cross had been allowed to provide relief efforts, and Allied forces were allowed to airdrop food over the German-occupied territories in Operation Manna
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