A document representing the end of one of history’s most brutal regimes sold Wednesday night at RR Auction for $166,333, surpassing its pre-auction estimate of $100,000. Following Adolf Hitler’s ...
‘This is Ed Kennedy in Paris. The war is over, and I am going to dictate: Germany has surrendered unconditionally.’ These are the words that ended World War II in the West, but they ruined the life of ...
On the 7th of May 1945, the German General Alfred Jodl signed the unconditional surrender of Nazi Germany at the Allied headquarters in Reims, France. It meant the ...
“Our rejoicing is sobered and subdued by a supreme consciousness of the terrible price we have paid to rid the world of Hitler and his evil band. Let us not forget, my fellow Americans, the sorrow and ...
May 8 marks 80 years since the close of the European theater in World War II, when Nazi Germany surrendered to the Allies. The fighting in Europe stopped when the Chief of Staff of the German Armed ...
On May 7th 1945 my father Tom Townsend, then a young man, having served in the Royal Corps of Signals with the British Expeditionary force in France and having being evacuated from St Malo in 1940, ...