This Day in History

[Zkribbler]

May 8, 1945

V-E Day is celebrated in American and Britain
On this day in 1945, both Great Britain and the United States celebrate Victory in Europe Day. Cities in both nations, as well as formerly occupied cities in Western Europe, put out flags and banners, rejoicing in the defeat of the Nazi war machine.

The eighth of May spelled the day when German troops throughout Europe finally laid down their arms: In Prague, Germans surrendered to their Soviet antagonists, after the latter had lost more than 8,000 soldiers, and the Germans considerably more; in Copenhagen and Oslo; at Karlshorst, near Berlin; in northern Latvia; on the Channel Island of Sark--the German surrender was realized in a final cease-fire. More surrender documents were signed in Berlin and in eastern Germany.

The main concern of many German soldiers was to elude the grasp of Soviet forces, to keep from being taken prisoner. About 1 million Germans attempted a mass exodus to the West when the fighting in Czechoslovakia ended, but were stopped by the Russians and taken captive. The Russians took approximately 2 million prisoners in the period just before and after the German surrender.

Meanwhile, more than 13,000 British POWs were released and sent back to Great Britain.

Pockets of German-Soviet confrontation would continue into the next day. On May 9, the Soviets would lose 600 more soldiers in Silesia before the Germans finally surrendered. Consequently, V-E Day was not celebrated until the ninth in Moscow, with a radio broadcast salute from Stalin himself: "The age-long struggle of the Slav nations...has ended in victory. Your courage has defeated the Nazis. The war is over."

[Grandpa Troll]

Ok,Ok,Ok

This is a site violation!

This belong in teh History>Misc>Ot>Sub-fora>New Forum>History

Or some such path

This is starting to really be bad, first an OT-Non Sanctioned Tech question, clearly in violation and clearly a subversive threat to Apolyton's planned intranet domination attempts

Now, ZKRibbler, you can be fiorgiven, a couple Poly-Plus subscriptions to a couple recent visitors, I think this can be overlooked, this time....................

[Fockerpeace]

ok here

[Wezil]

Originally posted by Grandpa Troll
Ok,Ok,Ok

This is a site violation!
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Now, ZKRibbler, you can be fiorgiven, a couple Poly-Plus subscriptions to a couple recent visitors, I think this can be overlooked, this time....................

Sounds like a biased judge to me.

The judge in your picture is a wimp. This guy would show NO MERCY.

[Wezil]

Forgot the pic.

[SlowwHand]

[Riesstiu IV]

Does that thing Wezil posted have boobs?

[Zkribbler]

This is a site violation!

I'm a rebel
And I'll never, ever be any good.

[Lancer]

Quite a pyrric victory for europe imo. The iron curtain decended across the heart of europe for almost 70 very formative years. Poland, the nation that GB joined the war to deliver from the Germans got handed handed to the equally heartless Russians instead. Czechoslovakia that got divvied up like a pizza by Hitler and Chamberlain over drinks but wasn't even invited to the party got likewise served up to the Soviet victor without so much as a 'thank you maam'. This day isn't 'VE Day', it's VM Day, Victory in Moscow Day.

Though it's nice you remembered Zkrib.

[SlowwHand]

What a choice at the time. German or Russian.
Was Canada open for business then? I guess not. NOW, 3rd party candidate.

[Lancer]

We could have tossed the Russians out of Poland and Czechoslovakia if they wouldn't leave peacefully but we didn't.

[AAHZ]

Originally posted by Grandpa Troll
This belong in teh History>Misc>Ot>Sub-fora>New Forum>History

[Grandpa Troll]

Originally posted by Wezil
Forgot the pic.

No0B

[Verto]

Originally posted by Lancer
Quite a pyrric victory for europe imo. The iron curtain decended across the heart of europe for almost 70 very formative years. Poland, the nation that GB joined the war to deliver from the Germans got handed handed to the equally heartless Russians instead. Czechoslovakia that got divvied up like a pizza by Hitler and Chamberlain over drinks but wasn't even invited to the party got likewise served up to the Soviet victor without so much as a 'thank you maam'. This day isn't 'VE Day', it's VM Day, Victory in Moscow Day.

Though it's nice you remembered Zkrib.

Should've listened to Patton.

[Lancer]

Patton was sooo right. He had Polish troops fighting in his army, fighting for the freedom of Poland.

[Verto]

Patton was always right

[Wezil]

Originally posted by SlowwHand
What a choice at the time. German or Russian.
Was Canada open for business then? I guess not. NOW, 3rd party candidate.

Of course we were. We carried the weight while the US was LATE AGAIN!