12/05/2022
This is how the Netherlands thought about the National Commemoration
Today, throughout the Netherlands, people have commemorated the war victims of the Second World War and after. Shortly before 8 p.m., King Willem-Alexander and Queen Máxima laid the first wreath on Dam Square at the National Commemoration. Two minutes of silence followed after the wreath-laying, to commemorate everyone who has died in war situations and in peace operations in the Netherlands and abroad since the start of the Second World War.
Images of the two minutes of silence on Dam Square in Amsterdam.
The dead were also commemorated in other places in the country. Mayor Aboutaleb gave a speech at a wreath-laying ceremony at the Rotterdam war memorial De Boeg. 'World War II was so unique in its scope, precision and thought that it can hardly be compared to other wars in the world,' he said.
'And yet it has happened on what we call the civilized continent,' he continued. 'Pay attention and stay with it, otherwise you forget something essential that ultimately made us part of the world what it is.'
