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General Eisenhower (left) is making his Victory in Europe speech at Reims, France, inside the war room of Shaef (Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force). On his left is his deputy ...

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.

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 ...

Dwight Eisenhower, supreme commander of the Allied forces in Europe, actually accepted the unconditional surrender of Nazi Germany at 2:41 a.m. local time on May 7, in a ceremony at Reims ...

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As Western alliances unravel, Europe is entering an era that seems distant from what VE Day represented, the BBC's Katya Adler writes.

"During WW2 it was an ally for existential reasons ... of Germany's military capitulation in the French cathedral city of Reims, news that broke on 8 May 1945. The USSR wanted its own, separate ...