THE WAR IN EUROPE IS ENDED! SURRENDER IS UNCONDITIONAL; V-E WILL BE PROCLAIMED TODAY (5/8/45)

Microfilm-New York Times archives, Monterey Public Library | 5/8/45 | Edward Kennedy, Frank S. Adams, Richard J.H. Johnston, John MacCormac, Gladwin Hill, Gene Currivan

[Homer_J_Simpson]

I just tweeted that picture.

[henkster]

I laugh at the Japanese “peace feelers” because they were so horribly inept. And we were reading their dispatches as quickly as they were being transmitted.

To those who would argue that Japan “was about to surrender” and therefore we didn’t need to drop the bombs, these exchanges show that simply isn’t so.

And we knew it.

[Homer_J_Simpson]

My tweet of your picture is picking up retweets at an astonishing rate. It seems good gag travels faster on social media than a more substantive post. I tweet links to my news posts every day and rarely get more than one retweet.

[InMemoriam]

You did it, Homer. Well done!

Here is where we carry Homer around the forum on our shoulders.

[colorado tanker]

There is a curious item that a prisoner, Odette Sansom, was driven to the U.S. lines personally by the Ravensbruck camp commandant. There is an interesting story behind that.

Odette was born and raised in France, where she met and married an Englishman.

Due to an accidental misdirection of mail, she came to the attention of the War Office and Special Operations Executive. She placed her three children in a convent school and underwent SOE spy training.

She parachuted into France and with Peter Churchill (no relation) assisted the Resistance. Churchill's organization was compromised, however, and both were arrested. Their cover story was they were married and Peter was the nephew of Winston. Despite severe torture, she stuck to the story.

She was sentenced to death and ended up in Ravensbruck. The cover, however, seemed to work and her life was spared. The commandant thought he would receive favorable treatment by escorting the niece of the P.M. to safety. It didn't work - Odette testified in the Ravensbruck war crimes trial.

Odette was awarded the George Cross, the only woman in the War who lived to receive it.

The plucky lady:

There is a P.S. In 1951 her home was burgled and the GC stolen. After a public appeal, it was returned with this note:

You, Madame, appear to be a dear old lady. God bless you and your children. I thank you for having faith in me. I am not all that bad — it's just circumstances. Your little dog really loves me. I gave him a nice pat and left him a piece of meat — out of fridge. Sincerely yours, A Bad Egg.

[Tax-chick]

What a remarkable story!

[Larry Lucido]

They used a slow-acting bullet.

[Larry Lucido]

Today’s thread is awesome. Well done, Homer!

[colorado tanker]

I thought so! What a gutsy - and lucky - lady!

[GeronL]

That is an awesome story

[Homer_J_Simpson]

We’re famous.

http://donsurber.blogspot.com/2015/05/tweet-of-ve-day.html?showComment=1431131853678#c7931333574547517773

[Hebrews 11:6]

Here is where we carry Homer around the forum on our shoulders.

Three cheers for Homer!

For he's a jolly good fellow
For he's a jolly good fellow
For he's a jolly good felloooooow
And so say all of us!

Hooray, Homer! Hip hip hooray!

Hats in the air! (scramble around looking for hat)

Drinks for everyone, on Homer!

[Tax-chick]

LOL! Congratulations!

[henkster]

Homer

Thanks again for this project. It’s meant a lot to me. It seems that the war in the Pacific will be an anticlimax, so I don’t know what I’ll do with my time now. But for your efforts I am more than grateful.

Even if “gratitude is a disease suffered by dogs.”

[Steven Scharf]

“Stalin was not pleased about the May 7 surrender and insisted on one the following day in Berlin. The Russian general who witnessed the surrender in Rheims was recalled to Moscow and summarily shot.”

Why do people post stuff here that can so easly be refuted. the Russina General was Ivan Alexeyevich Susloparov and he died in 1974 so obvouisly Stalin did not have him summarily shot.

Ivan Alexeyevich Susloparov, the surname is often transcribed in the French manner, Sousloparov) (19 October 1897 – 16 December 1974) was a Soviet general who served as the Military Liaison Mission Commander with the French government and the Allied Expeditionary Force in Europe in 1944–45. He is mostly known as the person who signed for the Soviet Union the German Instrument of Surrender on May 7, 1945. However, since he did not have an authorization from Moscow to do so, the Soviet Union insisted on signing another Act of Military Surrender near Berlin two days later.

[Alas Babylon!]

Hey, leave me out of it, uh?

I'm trying to celebrate the end of the war!

[Tax-chick]

LOL!