[ad_1]
President Trump could come to the Netherlands, said the US ambassador to the Netherlands, Pete Hoekstra. The reason is not an important conference or consultation with Prime Minister Rutte, but a flag. The Dutch owner wants to give the flag to the president, because he thinks that the fabric belongs to the United States.
This is a 1944 flag that was carried on D-Day (June 6), the day of the Allied Invasion in Normandy. In 2016, an auction house said the flag was "the main object of D-Day landings, which is still in private hands".
The owner is the Rotterdam art collector, Bert Kreuk. He bought the flag at the auction for more than 450,000 euros. "It has been a very emotional purchase," says Kreuk. "The flag is frayed, there are bullet impacts in a German rifle and you can see that it has fallen to the ground in a chaos." America:
Source link
