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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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • shipwrecks in May 1945 includes ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during May 1945. Rohwer, Jürgen; Gerhard Hümmelchen. "Seekrieg 1945, Mai"....
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    Luftwaffe: May 1944 – May 1945. London: Greenhill Books, 2001. ISBN 978-1-85367-440-2. The Rise and Fall of the German Air Force 1933–1945. 1983 [1948]...
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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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    [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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    government at Flensburg on the Danish border. He was joined there on 2 May 1945 by the "Oberkommando der Wehrmacht" (OKW) (English: "High Command of the...
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    (Baltics), and Southeast Europe (Balkans), and lasted from 22 June 1941 to 9 May 1945. Of the estimated 70–85 million deaths attributed to World War II, around...
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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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    Karl Dönitz (category Use British English from May 2021)
    Adolf Hitler's suicide, succeeded him as head of state of Nazi Germany in May 1945, holding the position until the dissolution of the Flensburg Government...
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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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  • The year 1945 in film involved some significant events. With 1945 being the last year of World War II, the many films released this year had themes of...
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    theatre of World War II. After the Vistula–Oder offensive of January–February 1945, the Red Army had temporarily halted on a line 60 km (37 mi) east of Berlin...
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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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