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The whole country stops for it: trains, traffic and television go\nquiet, wherever you are and whether or not you are near a ceremony. What is asked of you is\nsimple. Stop, stand still, and stay silent for those two minutes, the same as everyone else.",[133,134,136],"h2",{"id":135},"what-to-actually-do-at-2000","What to actually do at 20:00",[125,138,139],{},"The National Remembrance Day (Nationale Dodenherdenking) on 4 May remembers everyone, civilian\nand military, who died in the Second World War, in the war in Indonesia, and in wars and peace\nmissions since. The two minutes of silence happen everywhere in the country at the same moment,\nnot only at organised ceremonies: if you are on a train, it stops. If you are in traffic, cars\npull over or simply stop. If the television is on, it goes silent too. Whatever you are doing at\nthat moment, in the kitchen, on the street, at home with the children, the expectation is the\nsame: stop, stand still, and be quiet for those two minutes. Nothing more is asked of you, and\nnothing less is acceptable, talking, laughing or playing music during those two minutes is\ngenuinely upsetting to the people around you.",[133,141,143],{"id":142},"the-flag-and-why-it-does-not-hang-half-mast-only-in-the-evening","The flag, and why it does not hang half-mast only in the evening",[125,145,146],{},"On 4 May the Dutch flag flies at half-mast the whole day, from sunrise to sunset, not from a\nparticular evening hour. It is the Dutch tricolour without the orange pennant that normally\naccompanies it on ordinary flag days. If you notice flags hanging low outside houses and public\nbuildings from the morning of 4 May, that is correct and deliberate, not a flag flown\nincorrectly.",[133,148,150],{"id":149},"_5-may-liberation-day-and-whether-you-get-it-off","5 May: Liberation Day, and whether you get it off",[125,152,153,154,159],{},"5 May, Bevrijdingsdag, is a separate day that celebrates the end of the German occupation, with\nfree public Bevrijdingsfestivals in cities around the country. It is an officially recognised\nholiday, but it is not automatically a paid day off, not for Dutch employees generally and not\nfor you. A lustrum year, once every five years (2025 was one, the next is 2030), is sometimes\ndescribed as making the difference, but even then only some employers give staff the day off,\ndepending on their own cao or contract, not most of them. Outside the meivakantie period, 5 May\nis also an ordinary school day for most schools. 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