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The BBC interrupted its schedule with a newsflash declaring the following day Victory in Europe Day, and that it would be a national holiday. The announcement that the war in Europe had ended was broadcast in Britain over the radio late on 7 May. Nine merchant seamen died the last Allied naval deaths of the European war.
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Fighting continued until the endįighting continued in Europe throughout 7 May. Just off the coast of Scotland, in the Firth of Forth, one mile south of the Isle of May, the German submarine U-2336 sank two merchant ships, the Norwegian Sneland I and British Avondale Park. The surrender was to come into effect at fifty-nine minutes to midnight on 8 May 1945. Hitler’s successor, Grand Admiral Dönitz, authorised Jodl to make the final and complete surrender of all German forces on all fronts.Īt 1:41am General Jodl signed the document of surrender. This would have prevented Germans transferring from the east to the west to give themselves up. Eisenhower had made it clear to the German negotiator, General Jodl, that Germany would have to agree to the surrender of all forces east and west or he would break all negotiations and seal the western front. Three days later, Supreme Allied Commander General Eisenhower accepted the unconditional surrender of all German forces. On 4 May 1945, a German delegation arrived at the headquarters of British Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery at Lüneburg Heath, east of Hamburg. They signed an instrument of unconditional surrender of the German forces in the Netherlands, north west Germany and Denmark. Did you know? Surrender was declared unconditional This year will mark the 75th anniversary of VE Day. The day was declared as Victory in Europe Day (VE Day) across the west, and in Britain the day was made a national holiday by Prime Minister Winston Churchill. On, the unconditional surrender of all German forces to the Allies came into effect.