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In Operation Doomsday, the British 1st Airborne Division acted as a police and military force during the Allied occupation of Norway in May 1945, immediately after the victory in Europe during the Second World War. The division maintained law and order until the arrival of the remainder of Force 134, the occupation force. During its time in ...
Vidkun Quisling and other members of the collaborationist Quisling regime in Norway surrendered to the Resistance and police at Møllergata 19 in Oslo, as part of the legal purge in Norway after World War II. [15] The British began Operation Doomsday when the 1st Airborne Division began landing in Norway to act as a police and military force.
By 2 May, both Namsos and Åndalsnes were evacuated by the British. On 5 May, the last Norwegian resistance pockets remaining in South and Central Norway were defeated at Vinjesvingen and Hegra Fortress. In the north, German troops engaged in a bitter fight at the Battle of Narvik. Holding out against five times as many British and French ...
This is a timeline showing surrenders of the various fighting groups of the Axis forces that also marked ending time of World War II: Table of surrenders ...
Debellation: At the time the Allied powers assumed that a debellation had occurred (the end of a war caused by the complete destruction of a hostile state), and their actions during the immediate post war period were based on that legal premise (however, the German government's legal position during and following the reunification of Germany is ...
"Turner Doomsday Video" is the internal title of a video intended to be broadcast by CNN at the end of the world.The video, created at the direction of CNN founder Ted Turner before the network's 1980 launch, [1] is a performance of the Christian hymn "Nearer My God To Thee" performed by multiple members of the U.S. Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine bands.
The Action of 28 January was the final engagement between British and German warships in Norwegian waters during World War II. [16] It was also the second last surface action fought by the Kriegsmarine , with its final engagement taking place on 18 March 1945 when a force of two torpedo boats and a destroyer was defeated by two British ...
The German Instrument of Surrender [a] was a legal document effecting the unconditional surrender of the remaining German armed forces to the Allies, ending World War II in Europe. It was signed at 22:43 CET on 8 May 1945 [b] [citation needed] and took effect at 23:01 CET on the same day.