On the 7th of May 1945, the German General Alfred Jodl signed the unconditional surrender of Nazi Germany at the Allied headquarters in Reims, France. It meant the Second World War had come to an end, ...

(May 8, 1945) WASHINGTON -- AP -- President Truman made arrangements Monday night to make a radio address at 8 p.m. Tuesday, presumably to proclaim the victory over Germany which is already known to ...

Gen. Alfred Jodl, German chief of staff under the Doenitz Regime, signs the document of “Unconditional Surrender” under which all remaining forces of the German army are bound to lay down their arms ...

James Holland has written about nearly every major battle of World War II, from Burma to Berlin. So it makes sense that in “Victory ’45: The End of the War in Eight Surrenders” he and his co-author, ...

“Our rejoicing is sobered and subdued by a supreme consciousness of the terrible price we have paid to rid the world of Hitler and his evil band. Let us not forget, my fellow Americans, the sorrow and ...

On this day 80 years ago, Long Islanders celebrated victory as German forces ended fighting in Europe by surrendering unconditionally to the allies, an occasion memorialized by space-pressed newspaper ...