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  2. Operation Sunrise (World War II) - Wikipedia

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    SS General Karl Wolff's Proxy of Surrender for northern Italy, 2 May 1945. Operation Sunrise (sometimes called the Berne incident) was a series of World War II secret negotiations from February to May 1945 between representatives of Nazi Germany and the United States to arrange a local surrender of German forces in northern Italy. [1]

  3. Karl Wolff - Wikipedia

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    Karl Friedrich Otto Wolff (13 May 1900 – 17 July 1984) was a senior German SS officer who served as Chief of Personal Staff Reichsführer-SS (Heinrich Himmler) and an SS liaison to Adolf Hitler during World War II. He ended the war as the Supreme SS and Police Leader in occupied Italy and helped arrange for the early surrender of Axis forces ...

  4. List of World War II battles involving the United States

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    American victory Germany Achieved Allied capture of Frankfurt; Battle of Paderborn: March 30, 1945 March 31, 1945 Paderborn, Germany Western Allied invasion of Germany American victory Germany Major General Maurice Rose is killed in battle and is the highest-ranking U.S. Armed Forces officer to be killed in action at the Western Front. Battle ...

  5. Timeline of the surrender of Axis forces at the end of World ...

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    Germany 36th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS: 700 None May 3 May 3 Germany Army Group H, in Northwest Germany, Schleswig-Holstein, Heligoland, the Frisian Islands, Denmark and other islands near Northwest Germany and remnants of Army Group Vistula in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern: 880,000

  6. End of World War II in Europe - Wikipedia

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    End of state of war with Germany was declared by many former Western Allies from 1950. [43] In the Petersberg Agreement of 22 November 1949, it was noted that the West German government wanted an end to the state of war, but the request could not be granted.

  7. Germany–United States relations - Wikipedia

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    Germany and the American Revolution, 1770–1800 (1977), Showed a deep intellectual impact on Germany of the American Revolution. Doerries, Reinhard R. "Imperial Berlin and Washington: New Light on Germany's Foreign Policy and America's Entry into World War I." Central European History 11.1 (1978): 23–49.

  8. Timeline of World War II (1939) - Wikipedia

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    This is a timeline of events of World War II in 1939 from the start of the war on 1 September 1939. For events preceding September 1, 1939, see the timeline of events preceding World War II. Germany's invasion of Poland on 1 September 1939 brought many countries into the war. This event, and the declaration of war by France and Britain two days ...

  9. Line of Contact - Wikipedia

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    Erfurt, [9] evacuated by American forces between July 1 and 2, and occupied by the Soviets on July 3; Other points of contact between Western Allies forces and Soviet forces before the end of the war in Europe were: Wismar on the Baltic coast; The Stör Canal, where Soviet and American forces met on May 4, 1945 [10]