Only a few months before, in the summer of 1944, Alfred Jodl had to listen as Der Fuhrer screeched at him in the Wolf's Lair: Jodl, Brennt Paris? No, Paris wasn't burning--because Herr Hitler's people ...
On the 7th of May 1945, the German General Alfred Jodl signed the unconditional surrender of Nazi Germany at the Allied ...
May 7 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1718, city of New Orleans was founded. In 1789, the first U.S. presidential inaugural ball, celebrating the inauguration of George Washington, was conducted ...
Editors’ note: Stars and Stripes is sharing this 2015 column by David Kiley in recognition of the anniversary of VE Day. At 3 a.m. on April 30, 1945, my father, Charles Kiley, had to check out a ...
World War II, the most brutal, destructive, and murderous conflict in human history, was finally, mercifully racing toward a close 75 Augusts ago. In early May, German units and personnel had rushed ...
LONDON — — April 16, 1945: The Soviet Red Army begins its final assault on Berlin, the capital of Nazi Germany. — April 28: Former Italian fascist premier Benito Mussolini is executed by Italian ...
FILE - Britain's Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery signs the surrender pact, in a tent at Montgomery's 21st Army Group headquarters, at Luneburg Heath, May 4, 1945. The pact, signed by senior German ...
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