Liberation Day (Dutch: Bevrijdingsdag [bəˈvrɛidɪŋzˌdɑx] ⓘ) is a public holiday in the Netherlands to mark the end of the Nazi occupation of the country during the Second World War.
Parts of the country, in particular the south-east, were liberated by the British Second Army which included American and Polish airborne forces (see Operation Market Garden) and French airbornes (see Operation Amherst).
On 5 May 1945, at Hotel de Wereld in Wageningen, I Canadian Corps commander Lieutenant-General Charles Foulkes and Oberbefehlshaber Niederlande commander-in-chief Generaloberst Johannes Blaskowitz reached an agreement on the capitulation of all German forces in the Netherlands.
The capitulation document was signed the next day in the auditorium of Wageningen University, located next door.
In 1990 the day was declared a national holiday when liberation would be remembered and celebrated every year.