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Nazi Germany surrendered to the Allies on this day 79 years ago...
Posted on 5/8/24 at 9:21 am
Posted on 5/8/24 at 9:21 am
Happy VE-Day! At 2:45 AM on the morning of May 7, 1945, Chief of the OKW, General Alfred Jodl, signed the instrument of surrender of the Wehrmacht at General Dwight D. Eisenhower's headquarters in Reims, France. The surrender would officially go into effect at midnight on May 8, however a general cease-fire was declared all across the line to avoid what happened on November 11, 1918 with the armistice that ended World War I.
Winston Churchill would announce the news of the German surrender over the radio on the morning of May 8, explaining to the British people and the rest of the world that the war in Europe had finally come to an end after almost six years of bloody fighting the likes of which the planet had never seen before.
The reaction across the world was unrestrained ecstasy as millions of people celebrated the end of hostilities.
Winston Churchill would announce the news of the German surrender over the radio on the morning of May 8, explaining to the British people and the rest of the world that the war in Europe had finally come to an end after almost six years of bloody fighting the likes of which the planet had never seen before.
The reaction across the world was unrestrained ecstasy as millions of people celebrated the end of hostilities.
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Posted on 5/8/24 at 9:25 am to RollTide1987
Should have made the commies surrender while we were in domination mode.
Posted on 5/8/24 at 9:25 am to RollTide1987
And they are back taking over College Campuses
Posted on 5/8/24 at 9:26 am to RollTide1987
We're headed back to Hawaii in a few weeks and plan to spend Memorial Day at Pearl Harbor. Looking forward to a new feeling in a familiar location.
Posted on 5/8/24 at 9:27 am to RollTide1987
Imagine if Hitler didn’t start a war on two fronts before completely conquering Europe/England.
Things would have gone very differently.
Things would have gone very differently.
Posted on 5/8/24 at 9:29 am to RollTide1987
Couldn't you have held onto this until next year and made it an even 80. Everyone would have been much happier. Now we all have this foreboding feeling of something being undone.
Posted on 5/8/24 at 9:29 am to RollTide1987
9 months later started the baby boom.
Posted on 5/8/24 at 9:34 am to RollTide1987
Great pictures.
Especially the second one with Guinness is good for you. I suspect that plenty of alcohol was consumed that day.
Especially the second one with Guinness is good for you. I suspect that plenty of alcohol was consumed that day.
Posted on 5/8/24 at 9:36 am to RollTide1987
Hooray, they Jews won. 
Posted on 5/8/24 at 9:38 am to RollTide1987
I have a photograph of my grandfather in his uniform holding a newspaper with the headline of Germany’s surrender the next day. He’s somewhere in Europe.
Maybe I should see if that Rainbolt guy could find the exact location for me.
Maybe I should see if that Rainbolt guy could find the exact location for me.
Posted on 5/8/24 at 9:39 am to RollTide1987
I think we fought the wrong ones
Posted on 5/8/24 at 9:56 am to RollTide1987
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Posted on 5/8/24 at 10:04 am to RollTide1987
Outstanding victory for the soviets.
Pretty pathetic that the US tries to act like they defeated the nazis…it was the ussr that put in 90% of the work
Pretty pathetic that the US tries to act like they defeated the nazis…it was the ussr that put in 90% of the work
Posted on 5/8/24 at 10:16 am to RollTide1987
Posted on 5/8/24 at 11:35 am to RollTide1987
Posted on 5/8/24 at 11:59 am to RollTide1987
In Normandy currently doing the D-Day tours. Villages in the area were having ceremonies today for the occasion. Truly moving being here.
Posted on 5/8/24 at 12:03 pm to RollTide1987
Real Shooters
Posted on 5/8/24 at 12:24 pm to RollTide1987
If this happened today youd have 15% of the population protesting on college campuses that we were too mean to the germans.
Posted on 5/8/24 at 12:32 pm to RollTide1987
We wouldn't be dealing with a lot of the BS we are dealing with today if we had taken out the Soviets
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