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    1945 January February March April May June July August September October November December The following events occurred in May 1945: Reichssender Hamburg's...
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    Tuesday, 8 May 1945; it marked the official end of World War II in Europe in the Eastern Front, with the last known shots fired on 11 May. Russia and...
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  • The 8 May 1945 Stadium (Arabic: ملعب 8 ماي 1945, French: Stade du 8 Mai 1945) is a multi-use stadium in Sétif, Algeria. It is currently used mostly for...
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  • The 13 May 1945 German deserter execution occurred five days after the capitulation of Nazi Germany along with the Wehrmacht armed forces in World War II...
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  • actions of the Battle of the Atlantic took place on 7–8 May 1945. During the first five months of 1945, the U-boat Arm (UbW) of Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine...
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  • 1945 January February March April May June July August September October November December Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1945. 1945 (MCMXLV) was...
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  • actions of the Battle of the Atlantic in American waters took place on 5–6 May 1945. There were two such actions, against U-853 off the Rhode Island coast...
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    30 April 1945 – Berlin falls to the Red Army and Hitler commits suicide. 4 May 1945 – German forces surrendered on Lüneburg Heath. 10 May 1945 – The last...
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    the campaign in Italy until the surrender of the Axis forces in Italy in May 1945. The invasion of Sicily in July 1943 led to the collapse of the Fascist...
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    remained in control of the main Atlantic ports until the end of the war on 8 May 1945. Immediately after liberation, France was swept by a wave of executions...
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    coalition government for most of the Second World War from 10 May 1940 to 23 May 1945. It was led by Winston Churchill, who was appointed prime minister...
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    Allied landings in Normandy and continued until the defeat of Germany in May 1945 with its invasion. On 1 September 1939, World War II began with the German...
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    conclusion, legal aftermath, with the inclusion of the Cold War, from January 1945 to December 1991. 1: The Germans begin a surprise offensive (Operation Nordwind)...
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    under the Weimar constitution, which was officially in force from 1919 to 1945. In English he was usually simply referred to as the president of Germany...
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    Reich, which the Nazis referred to as the Thousand-Year Reich, ended in May 1945, after only 12 years, when the Allies defeated Germany and entered the...
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    Surrender late in the evening on 8 May 1945 (9 May Moscow Time). The Soviet government announced the victory early on 9 May after the signing ceremony in Berlin...
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    German occupation lasted in some areas until the German surrender in May 1945. Active resistance, at first carried out by a minority, grew in the course...
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    campaign in World War II, ran from 1939 to the defeat of Nazi Germany in 1945, covering a major part of the naval history of World War II. At its core...
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    [ˈʃtʊndə nʊl]) is a term referring to the capitulation at midnight on 8 May 1945 and the immediately following weeks in Germany. It marked the end of World...
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    126. Stern, p. 7. Blair, Clay (1998). Hitler's U-Boat War, The Hunted 1942–1945. Random House. pp. 333–334. ISBN 0-679-45742-9. Miller, David. U-Boats: the...
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    forthcoming Potsdam Conference. The German Instrument of Surrender of 8 May 1945 had provided only for the military capitulation of German armed forces...
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    until 8 May 1945, ending in a ceasefire the day before the arrival of the Red Army and one day after Victory in Europe Day. Prague was taken on 9 May by Soviet...
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    Lombard Plain by the 15th Allied Army Group started on 6 April 1945 and ended on 2 May with the surrender of all Axis forces in Italy. The Allies had...
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  • the Files of the KGB, based on documents in Soviet archives. In late April 1945, during the last days of the fighting in the Battle of Berlin, Haase, with...
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    Allies, ending World War II in Europe. It was signed at 22:43 CET on 8 May 1945[citation needed] and took effect at 23:01 CET on the same day. The day...
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    September 1939 and 2 September 1945. The duration of the Second World War in Europe was from 3 September 1939 to 8 May 1945, while in the Pacific Theatre...
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    in April 1945 with the creation of the Košice Programme. All of the remaining German armed forces also surrendered to the Allies on 8 May 1945. President...
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    The 1945 United Kingdom general election was a national election held on Thursday 5 July 1945, but polling in some constituencies was delayed by some...
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    Joseph Goebbels (German: [ˈpaʊ̯l ˈjoːzɛf ˈɡœbl̩s] ; 29 October 1897 – 1 May 1945) was a German Nazi politician and philologist who was the Gauleiter (district...
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    Star (later named the 1939–1945 Star) and the Africa Star became the first two campaign stars instituted, and by May 1945 a total of eight stars and nine...
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