[3] 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.

I Canadian Corps commander Lieutenant-General Charles Foulkes, accompanied by Canadian Brigadier-General George Kitching and Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands, accepted the capitulation of Oberbefehlshaber Niederlande German commander-in-chief Generaloberst Johannes Blaskowitz, who was accompanied by German Generalleutnant Paul Reichelt.

On 6 May 1945 (no typewriter had been available the previous day), the official signing of the capitulation document took place in the auditorium of Rijks Landbouw Hoogeschool, next door to the hotel.

The pen used to sign can be seen in the local museum the Casteelse poort (English: Castles gate).

On 9 July Prince Bernhard unveiled the plaque which was given by General Foulkes to remember the capitulation act signed in Wageningen.