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A second surrender signing insisted upon by Stalin took place in Berlin with a slightly revised instrument of surrender. The original would have sufficed, but Stalin insisted.
This one was signed, for the Germans, by Field Marshal Keitel.
And the war in Europe came to an end.
Celebrations broke out all across Western Europe and North America, which in some instances had begun the day prior. Winston Churchill announced new of the 11:00 p.m. singing at 3:00 p.m. Truman at 9:00 a.m., warning that the war was only half won. All times local.
Karl Dönitz announced the in a speech broadcast from Flensburg at 12:30 p.m., mentioning that the Nazi Party no longer had any role in government.
Hermann Göring surrendered near Radstadt, Austria. Eisenhower would be upset when he learned of the celebrity status his American captors had given him.
German submarines were ordered to surface and report to the Allies.
The Massacre in Trhová Kamenice occurred when German troops in Trhová Kamenice, Czechoslovakia shot supposed partisans. In spite of the surrender, some German forces did not lay down their arms on the 8th.
The Sétif and Guelma massacre began when French police fired on local Algerian demonstrators at a protest in the Algerian market town of Sétif. The beginning of decolonization had begun.
Gen. Ernst-Günther Baade, age 47, died of gangrene; Paul Giesler, age 49, German Nazi official committed suicide; Werner von Gilsa, age 56, German military officer committed suicide after being captured by the Russians; Wilhelm Rediess, age 44, German commander of SS troops in Norway committed suicide; Bernhard Rust, age 61, German Nazi Minister of Science, Education and National Culture committed suicide; Josef Terboven, age 46, German Reichskommissar for Norway during the Nazi occupation committed suicide by detonating dynamite in a bunker.
The US 145th Infantry division took the the ridge near Guagua, southeast of Mount Pacawagan on Luzon and blocked a track along the Mariquina river.
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