Convoy returning German troops to Germany from Austria after the surrender.
The Red Army entered Prague to the cheers of its residents.
The German garrisons at Lorient and Sark surrendered.
Heinz Guderian surrendered to U.S. troops. While he was a supporter of Nazism and remained a German nationalist for the rest of his life, he managed to avoid incarceration.
The U.S. Government announced its plans to withdraw 3,100,000 US troops in Europe.
Richard Glücks, age 56, Nazi official died by suicide; Konrad Henlein, 47, Sudeten German politician and Nazi, died by suicide. Norwegian Reichs Commissioners Terboven and the German Chief of Police in Norway both committed suicide.
US troops landed on the coast of Macajalar Bay on Luzon.
Japanese POWs on Okinawa. May 10, 1945.
Last edition:
Wednesday, May 9, 1945. The last Wehrmachtbericht, Stalin's congrats.
Labels: 1940s, 1945, Airborne, British Army, Channel Islands, Collaborators, German Flensburg Government, German Wehrmacht, Joseph Stalin, Norway, Operation Doomsday, Slovenia, The Holocaust, World War Two
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