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The British and Soviet forces near Wismar on the Baltic coast, 3 May 1945. The German ocean liner Cap Arcona was sunk by British warplanes in the Bay of Lübeck with 5,000 concentration camp prisoners aboard. Over 400 SS personnel made it to lifeboats and were rescued but only 350 of the prisoners survived. [6] [7]
Victory in Europe Day is the day celebrating the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces on 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.
The Sétif and Guelma massacre [a] (also called the Sétif, Guelma and Kherrata massacres [b] or the massacres of 8 May 1945 [c]) was a series of attacks by French colonial authorities and pied-noir European settler militias on Algerian civilians in 1945 around the market town of Sétif, west of Constantine, in French Algeria.
English: The Liberation of Bergen-belsen Concentration Camp, May 1945 German nurses wash an emaciated man lying on one of the tables in the cleansing station at the newly established hospital at Hohne Miltary Barracks, nicknamed the "Human Laundry".
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2 May 1945 Yevgeny Khaldei: Berlin, Germany 35 mm The photograph depicts the raising of the Soviet flag during Battle of Berlin. [47] [s 3] Atomic Cloud Rises Over Nagasaki: 9 August 1945 Charles Levy Nagasaki, Japan Unknown [s 2] [s 3] [s 5] V-J Day in Times Square: 14 August 1945 Alfred Eisenstaedt (pictured: same event taken by Victor Jorgensen)