Get it out,’ the then 39-year-old journalist concluded, instructing his colleagues at news agency the Associated Press to send an update by wire around the world in the afternoon of May 7, 1945. It ...

Luciano “Louis” Graziano led Nazi officers to Eisenhower after they signed the surrender. Now 102, he recalls what came next.

Truman designated May 8 as VE Day and the western allies followed suit, according to the museum. However, the Soviet Union recognizes its Victory Day on May 9 after having a second set of surrender ...

just metres from the very table where 34th US President Dwight Eisenhower’s team received the official Nazi surrender to end WW2 in Europe. Entry costs £4.60 per person (Musees-reims.fr/fr ...

It had been 2:41am in Reims, France, when German envoys signed the act of unconditional surrender inside a red‑brick schoolhouse that served as General Dwight D. Eisenhower’s headquarters.