Posted on 05/08/2021 11:03:28 AM PDT by NEWwoman
On May 8, 1945, both Great Britain and the United States celebrate Victory in Europe Day. Cities in both nations, as well as formerly occupied cities in Western Europe, put out flags and banners, rejoicing in the defeat of the Nazi war machine during World War II.
The eighth of May spelled the day when German troops throughout Europe finally laid down their arms: In Prague, Germans surrendered to their Soviet antagonists, after the latter had lost more than 8,000 soldiers, and the Germans considerably more; in Copenhagen and Oslo; at Karlshorst, near Berlin; in northern Latvia; on the Channel Island of Sark—the German surrender was realized in a final cease-fire. More surrender documents were signed in Berlin and in eastern Germany.
READ MORE: What V-E Day Looked Like Around the World
The main concern of many German soldiers was to elude the grasp of Soviet forces, to keep from being taken prisoner. About 1 million Germans attempted a mass exodus to the West when the fighting in Czechoslovakia ended, but were stopped by the Russians and taken captive. The Russians took approximately 2 million prisoners in the period just before and after the German surrender.
Meanwhile, more than 13,000 British POWs were released and sent back to Great Britain.
Pockets of German-Soviet confrontation would continue into the next day. On May 9, the Soviets would lose 600 more soldiers in Silesia before the Germans finally surrendered. Consequently, V-E Day was not celebrated until the ninth in Moscow, with a radio broadcast salute from Stalin himself: “The age-long struggle of the Slav nations… has ended in victory. Your courage has defeated the Nazis. The war is over.”
Guess Biden was too busy with something else to make note of the day.
Does he even know what day of the week it is? What month? What year?
Biden did indeed issue a proclamation to observe this day:
“Today the children of Europe...I love kids! The African nations celebrate the conquest of Atlanta in the Civil War where laser guided nuclear weapons did something about the 33rd Annual Berkeley Hills bicycle race. Beavers are building levees in Texas and we’re building high speed rail to Guam!”
That was Biden’s best speech ever!
https://archive.org/details/wwii-radio-archive-torrent/1945/1945-05-08+BBC+Winston+Churchill+-+Germany‘s+Unconditional+Surrender.mp3
Prime Minister Churchill announces German Surrender.
A stupendous day for Europe and the world.
Take two: https://archive.org/details/wwii-radio-archive-torrent/1945/1945-05-08+BBC+Winston+Churchill+-+Germany‘s+Unconditional+Surrender.mp3
You’ll need to copy / paste. The URL is too long for proper linking. Is there a solution for this?
Sorry
My mother thought that Truman made May 8th V-E Day because it was his birthday (instead of having May 7th as V-E Day).
Would seem France and many other nations should celebrate it also.
VE Day must be bittersweet for Eastern Europe because it put them under the rule of Communust despots.
LOL!!!
Thanks for the link.
Indeed. FDR made a deal with the devil-—”Uncle Joe” (FDR’s word) Stalin.
The West celebrates nothing anymore.
At least the Russians still make a big deal out of it.
What gets me is the fact that we do not celebrate Aug 15th when the Japs ordered a cease fire and truly ended WW2, But when that happened at that time in 1945 and following years we did, It was stopped because of racial reasons.
I find it hard to get my patriotic juices going about D-Day as I used to. WW2 marked, not just Churchill Britain’s finest hour, but America’s too.
But, since the stealing of the election and ongoing coup of America, communism having taken us by the throat, our former victory we enjoyed over Hitler and Tojo, now seems tarnished.
How many Americans have suffered, died, and with terrible war wounds, fighting Communism on foreign fields only to have it taken over right here at home?
How is it we were so brave on foreign fields (America home of the brave), yet have allowed it to take us over here at home?
Celebrate! (thx :)
FTA: About 1 million Germans attempted a mass exodus to the West when the fighting in Czechoslovakia ended, but were stopped by the Russians and taken captive. The Russians took approximately 2 million prisoners in the period just before and after the German surrender.
The Russians killed almost all by working them to death and just plain murder. Very few ever got back to Germany.
How man U.S. service members died needlessly over the next three months, because of the terrible agreement that FDR in Churchill main.
The war in Asia could have been over the next day If FDR in Churchill didn’t give the Soviet Union 3 months to inveigh Japan.
The United States spent the next 3 months conventionally bombing Japan into rubble. But it didn’t need to be that way. FDR and Churchill have a lot of blood on their hands.
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