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 | | People were hoping to be liberated quickly by the French and British, but after the evacuation from Dunkirk, where the Allies's armies barely escaped being surrounded, France surrendered. |
 | | The Scottish 52nd Lowland Division landed on the south coast of Zuid-Beveland. |
 | | Following the surrender of the Japanese in the Netherlands East Indies, Indonesian nationalists fought a four year Indonesian war of independence against Dutch and British Commonwealth forces, eventually leading to the Dutch recognition of the independence of Indonesia. |
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