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V-E Day is celebrated in America and Britain
History ^ | 08 May 2021 | history.com

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.”


TOPICS: History; Military/Veterans
KEYWORDS: veday; ww2
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1 posted on 05/08/2021 11:03:28 AM PDT by NEWwoman
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To: NEWwoman

Guess Biden was too busy with something else to make note of the day.


2 posted on 05/08/2021 11:06:36 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: Sacajaweau

Does he even know what day of the week it is? What month? What year?


3 posted on 05/08/2021 11:08:16 AM PDT by NEWwoman (God Bless America)
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To: Sacajaweau

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!”


4 posted on 05/08/2021 11:14:17 AM PDT by MercyFlush (Senator Joseph McCarthy was right. )
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To: MercyFlush

That was Biden’s best speech ever!


5 posted on 05/08/2021 11:23:29 AM PDT by Wilhelm Tell (True or False? This is not a tag line.)
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To: NEWwoman; MinuteGal; M Kehoe

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.


6 posted on 05/08/2021 11:49:45 AM PDT by Peter W. Kessler ("NUTS!!!")
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To: NEWwoman; MinuteGal; M Kehoe

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


7 posted on 05/08/2021 11:52:48 AM PDT by Peter W. Kessler ("NUTS!!!")
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To: NEWwoman

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).


8 posted on 05/08/2021 11:54:23 AM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: NEWwoman

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.


9 posted on 05/08/2021 11:58:18 AM PDT by ifinnegan ( Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: MercyFlush

LOL!!!


10 posted on 05/08/2021 12:00:17 PM PDT by NEWwoman (God Bless America)
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To: Peter W. Kessler

Thanks for the link.


11 posted on 05/08/2021 12:00:57 PM PDT by NEWwoman (God Bless America)
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To: ifinnegan

Indeed. FDR made a deal with the devil-—”Uncle Joe” (FDR’s word) Stalin.


12 posted on 05/08/2021 12:02:08 PM PDT by NEWwoman (God Bless America)
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To: NEWwoman

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okyXoZf1ImY


13 posted on 05/08/2021 12:17:40 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: NEWwoman

The West celebrates nothing anymore.

At least the Russians still make a big deal out of it.


14 posted on 05/08/2021 12:18:31 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: NEWwoman; All

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.


15 posted on 05/08/2021 12:23:45 PM PDT by mosesdapoet (AKA Lee J Keslin posting in the hopes comments get passed around )
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To: NEWwoman

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?


16 posted on 05/08/2021 12:32:00 PM PDT by sasportas
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To: NEWwoman

That was then.

This is now.


17 posted on 05/08/2021 12:37:21 PM PDT by Bratch
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To: NEWwoman

Celebrate! (thx :)


18 posted on 05/08/2021 1:00:54 PM PDT by dadfly
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To: NEWwoman

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.


19 posted on 05/08/2021 1:05:01 PM PDT by minnesota_bound (I need more money. )
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To: NEWwoman

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.


20 posted on 05/08/2021 1:05:33 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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