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B. The Netherlands borders Germany to the east and Belgium to the south. Its North Sea coastline is to the north and west. It is a flat lowland country, with about 26% of its land below sea level. It was formed by the flow of three major European rivers, Rhine, Meuse and Schelde, which empty waters from Belgium, France, Germany and Switzerland into the North Sea.
A. Anne Frank was a Jewish girl who kept a diary about hiding in Amsterdam from persecution by the occupying Nazis. Anne, her mother and sister died later in Nazi concentration camps. Her father survived and was given Anne’s diary after the war. He published it 1947. “The Diary of a Young Girl” account of the Holocaust has since been translated into 70 languages.
C. While praised as a major step toward justice and human rights, the International Criminal Court’s rulings are not accepted by some major powers including China, India, Russia and the United States. Europol is a cooperative intelligence operation of European police agencies. The International Court of Justice and the Court of Arbitration settle disputes between nations.
B. The First Canadian Army, which also included British and Polish troops, cleared the Netherlands of German forces during the final weeks of the European war. World War II began in 1939 and ended in 1945 with the surrender of Germany in May and Japan in September. The world’s deadliest conflict, it killed 70 to 85 million people, mostly civilians.