Editor’s note: This story was originally published on May 7, 2024. A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. On May 7, 1945, Nazi Germany signed an unconditional ...

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 ...

“Our rejoicing is sobered and subdued by a supreme consciousness of the terrible price we have paid to rid the world of Hitler and his evil band. Let us not forget, my fellow Americans, the sorrow and ...

Adolf Hitler was dead. Germany was surrendering. The war was over — at least, it was in Europe. Despite six years of military action, entire nations laid to waste and millions of soldiers, sailors and ...

Discover a few interesting things you might not know about Victory in Europe Day, May 8, 1945—from royal princesses in conga lines to Stalin's demanding a second Nazi surrender.

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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 ...