British Field Marshal Sir Bernard Montgomery accepted the unconditional surrender of the German forces in the Netherlands, northwest Germany including all islands, Denmark and all naval ships in those areas.
The US Seventh United States Army captured Innsbruck, Salzburg and Berchtesgaden.
German forces in northeast Germany, Czechoslovakia and Austria begin rearguard actions in an attempt to reach Anglo American lines.
The Red Army too the Oranienburg concentration camp.
Konrad Barde, 47, German Generalmajor committed suicide.
Fedor von Bock, 64, German field marshal was killed by a strafing British aircraft while traveling by car.
Yugoslav partisans entered Fiume.
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