每年的5月5日,在荷兰小城瓦赫宁根(Wageningen)都要举行盛大的全国解放日庆祝活动。第二次世界大战时期,荷兰宣布中立。但是德国纳粹军为了得到一个更大的战场,于1940年5月10日凌晨,对荷兰发动战争,从而打破了荷兰“中立国不受侵犯”的白日梦。战争仅持续数周荷兰就宣布投降,王室逃往海外。二战后期,荷兰成为盟军反攻欧洲大陆的重要战场,其中最著名的就是军事史上最大规模的空降作战——“市场花园”行动(Operation On May 5 of each year, a grand celebration of the National Liberation Day takes place in Wageningen, a small Dutch town. During the Second World War, the Netherlands declared neutral. However, in order to obtain a larger battlefield, the German Nazi Army launched a war against the Netherlands in the early hours of May 10, 1940, breaking the daydream of the Netherlands “inviolability of the neutral country.” The war only took weeks to declare the Dutch surrender, the royal fled to overseas. In the latter part of World War II, the Netherlands became an important battlefield against which allied forces counterattacked the continent. The most famous one was the largest airborne warfare in the history of the military - Operation Garden