May 9th – Victory Day: Zukov inspects the bombed Berlin, the message arrives in Moscow, Stalin’s speech

On May 7, 1945, at the Eisenhower Headquarters in French Rems, the preliminary protocol for the unconditional capitulation of Nazi Germany, which has been crushed in the battlefields, is signed. However, because there was no such high -ranking executive on the Soviet side that he could sign such a serious document, their side demanded that the general act of capitulation be signed in Berlin. There, in the suburb of Carlhorsst, the German Supreme Administration, Commander -in -Chief, Admiral Friedburg and Stubf Air Force General, signed before the representatives of the Soviet Union, Army, Army, Army. General de Latt de Tinini the unconditional capitulation of Nazi Germany. The announcement in Moscow at 02:10 (Moscow time), radio announcer, Yuri Levitan, briefed Soviet citizens of the unconditional delivery of German troops and victory in the “Great Patriotic War”. The citizens of Moscow were not sleeping. They listened to Yuri […]
Source: News Beast

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