Representatives of four Allied powers and vanquished Germany scrawled their names on a sheet of foolscap in a map-lined 30-by ...

A document representing the end of one of history’s most brutal regimes sold Wednesday night at RR Auction for $166,333, surpassing its pre-auction estimate of $100,000. Following Adolf Hitler’s ...

On the 7th of May 1945, the German General Alfred Jodl signed the unconditional surrender of Nazi Germany at the Allied headquarters in Reims, France. It meant the ...

LONDON, April 7: Unconditional surrender of all German fighting forces at noon today was ordered by the new German Fuhrer, Admiral Doenitz, and conveyed to the German people over Flensburg Radio by ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE - Some of the AP Paris staff join Paris Bureau Chief Ed Kennedy, seated center left, for a farewell get-together in the early ...

On this day in history, May 8, 1945, President Harry Truman announced to the American people that Nazi Germany's forces had surrendered in World War II — and that "the flags of freedom fly all over ...

(May 8, 1945) WASHINGTON -- AP -- President Truman made arrangements Monday night to make a radio address at 8 p.m. Tuesday, presumably to proclaim the victory over Germany which is already known to ...

James Holland has written about nearly every major battle of World War II, from Burma to Berlin. So it makes sense that in “Victory ’45: The End of the War in Eight Surrenders” he and his co-author, ...

PROBABLY the two most fateful words used in the life of the present generation wore “unconditional surrender. ” They influenced the conduct and shaped the outcome of World War II. Hardly a person is ...

LELAND, NC (WWAY) — 78 years ago today, soldiers stormed Omaha Beach by land, sea, and air. D-Day turned the tide of World War II and impacted millions of civilians and citizens, like Robert Boke.