Written by zachor_foundation on May 7, 2014
The German High Command surrendered to the Allies unconditionally. Final German attempts to conclude a surrender accord with the Western powers failed. General Alfred Jodl, representing Germany, signed the letter of surrender in the war room of the Allied headquarters in Reims, France. Fighting was to stop at 11:01 a.m. on May 9. Two days later, the general surrender was formally ratified in Berlin, this time with the Soviets, as Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel signed an identical document for General
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Written by zachor_foundation on May 7, 2014
Several days after the fall of Berlin, in Berlin itself desperate street – by street resistance was put up by the Germans and was not completely overcome until the war itself ended, after Hitler´s suicide, with Germany´s unconditional surrender. On May 7, the remnants of the German army surrendered unconditionally. The end of the war in Europe was declared. Churchill and Truman proclaimed the day of victory. The response to this news was basically identical in all the Allied countries:
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Written by zachor_foundation on May 7, 2014
The Potsdam Conference was the last in which the leaders of the three great powers-Churchill, Truman, and Stalin-took part. The West agreed to cede German territory east of the River Oder to Poland. To compensate the Soviet Union for its war effort, an agreement was concluded in which the USSR would be given pieces of German, Austrian, Bulgarian, Hungarian, Romanian, and Finnish territory. Germany was partitioned into four spheres of influence: a Soviet sector, in the east; a British sector,
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