page_title: Reichskommissariat Niederlande
section_title: Liberation
hierarchical_section_title: Reichskommissariat Niederlande / Liberation
caption_attribution_description: English: Nationaal Archief Beschrijving: Een uitzinnige menigte verwelkomt de Geallieerden (49e Canadese infanterie divisie) bij hun intocht in Utrecht. Datum: 7 mei 1945 Vervaardiger: Anefo / Poll, Willem van de Bestanddeelnummer: 900-2820 URL: http://beeldbank.nationaalarchief.nl/na:col1:dat244645 Voor meer informatie over het Nationaal Archief: http://www.nationaalarchief.nl Voor meer foto's uit deze en andere collecties, bezoek onze Beeldbank:, http://www.beeldbank.nationaalarchief.nl U kunt ons helpen onze kennis van de fotocollecties te verrijken door tags en commentaren toe te voegen. Herkent u mensen of locaties of heeft u een bijzonder verhaal te vertellen bij één van de foto's, laat dan een reactie achter (als u ingelogd bent bij Flickr) of stuur een mailtje naar: flickrthecommons@nationaalarchief.nl
context_page_description: The Reichskommissariat Niederlande was the civilian occupation regime set up by Germany in the German-occupied Netherlands during World War II. Its full title was the Reich Commissariat for the Occupied Dutch Territories. The administration was headed by Arthur Seyss-Inquart, formerly the last chancellor of Austria before initiating its annexation by Germany.
context_section_description: From 1944 to 1945, the Reichskommissariat came under attack from Allied forces. The first attempt to liberate the Netherlands by the Allies was during Operation Market Garden in 1944, involving the use of paratrooper divisions to take over key bridges in the Netherlands to allow Allied tanks positioned in Belgium to quickly go through the Netherlands and reach Arnhem, which held a bridge over the river Rhine. This would put the Allies in a strategic advantage to invade Germany and quickly end the war. Eindhoven and Nijmegen were liberated. However Allied intelligence failures and poor organization resulted in an Allied failure to cross the Rhine at Arnhem.
  After Market Garden, the Canadian Army was given the initiative to liberate the Netherlands, the Canadian armed forces managed to push the German forces to the upper part of the Netherlands by 1945 in which Germany surrendered, abdicating its claim to the Netherlands and all other occupied territories.
caption: People celebrating the liberation of Utrecht on 7 May 1945
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