Victory in Europe Day, generally known as V-E Day, was the public holiday celebrated on 8 May 1945 to mark the formal acceptance by the Allies of Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender marking the end of World War II in Europe.
The world celebrated the end of Naziism, and crowds burst in spontaneous celebrations throughout the world. here we give you some of the healines from that auspicious day.
On 30 April, Adolf Hitler committed suicide as the Red Army was storming Berlin. The surrender of Germany thus fell to his successor, Reichprasident Karl Donitz. The administration headed by Dönitz was known as the Felnsburg government. The act of military surrender was signed on 7 May in Reims, France and on 8 May in Berlin, Germany.
As the Soviet representative in Reims had no authority to sign the German instrument of surrender, the Soviet leadership proposed to consider Reims surrender as a "preliminary" act. The surrender ceremony was repeated in Berlin on May 8, where the instrument of surrender was signed by supreme German military commander Wilhelm Keitel, by Georgy Zhukov and Allied representatives. Since the Soviet Union was to the east of Germany, it was 9 May Moscow Time when the German military surrender became effective, which is why Russia and most of the former Soviet republics commemorate VE Day on 9 May instead of 8 May.
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