Today marks the 75th anniversary of Victory in Europe Day, the official end of the Second World War when the Allies accepted the unconditional surrender of Nazi Germany on Tuesday, 8 May 1945.

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In “On the Eve: The Jews of Europe Before the Second World War,” Bernard Wasserstein argues that European Jews were a doomed civilization even before the Holocaust.

Animated map showing the advances of Allied troops during the Second World War in Europe from July 1, 1943 to May 8, 1945, by 15-day intervals and showing the main cities liberated. VIDEOGRAPHIC ...

So how did the war come to an end, and why does the US mark a different date to Europe?. Here is all you need to know. Experience VE Day 1945 as it happened with Metro’s live blog ...

Seventy-five years ago today, the Second World War came to an end in Europe. In the early hours of 7 May, Colonel General Alfred Jodl signed the unconditional capitulation of the Wehrmacht in ...

Second, Stalin would have been extremely hesitant at allowing Germany to continue running roughshod around Europe; the Third Reich would continue to pose a serious existential threat to the USSR.

In the twenty years after the end of the Second World War, the United States invested in the economic recovery of Japan and Western Europe and extended loans to other countries around the world.

Countries across the world will be celebrating the 80th anniversary of Nazi Germany’s unconditional surrender in World War II. But this year’s events may be more bittersweet than in the past.