Five years, 8 months and six days of the bloodiest war in world history came to an end today at General Eisenhower’s Headquarters at Rhims, France.
Colonel General Gustof Jobl, Chief of Staff for the German Army surrendered the Reich unconditionally to the Western Allies and Russia. Surrender came at 8:41 PM Eastern War Time or 3:41 PM Hawaiian time today.
Grand Admiral Karl Doenitz ordered the capitulation of all fighting forces and called off the U-Boat war.
Isolated pockets of resistance were still reported to be holding out but it is believed this is due to the failure of the surrender order to reach all German forces still fighting..
The greatest, bloodiest, costliest war in human history that began when Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939 came to an end today after 2,319 days of barbaric ferocity.
Estimates place casualties, killed, wounded and captured at 40,000,000
Surrender pact was signed for the Allies by Lieutenant General Walter Bedell Smith, Chief of Staff for General Eisenhower; General Ivan Susloparoff for Russia, and General Francois Sevez for France.
America greeted the announcement of Germany’s Unconditional surrender with a mixture of emotions. Gaiety,.solemn prayer in streets, and a feeling of excitement swept from coast to coast. New York did not wait for official announcement. People shouted and sang in the streets. A snow storm of waste paper was tossed from buildings. In Washington, President Camena of the Philippines termed the surrender a decisive step along the road to final victory. However, he was emphatic that the United Nations must not halt until Japan is completely crushed.”
Interesting that it says Russia, not soviet union
Just the death estimate is higher now.
>World War II was the deadliest military conflict in history. An estimated total of 70–85 million people perished, or about 3% of the 2.3 billion (est.) people on Earth in 1940.[1] Deaths directly caused by the war (including military and civilian fatalities) are estimated at 50–56 million, with an additional estimated 19–28 million deaths from war-related disease and famine. Civilian deaths totaled 50–55 million. Military deaths from all causes totaled 21–25 million, including deaths in captivity of about 5 million prisoners of war.
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It reads :
“EISENHOWER CONFIRMS GERMAN SURRENDER
GERMANY SURRENDERS
Five years, 8 months and six days of the bloodiest war in world history came to an end today at General Eisenhower’s Headquarters at Rhims, France.
Colonel General Gustof Jobl, Chief of Staff for the German Army surrendered the Reich unconditionally to the Western Allies and Russia. Surrender came at 8:41 PM Eastern War Time or 3:41 PM Hawaiian time today.
Grand Admiral Karl Doenitz ordered the capitulation of all fighting forces and called off the U-Boat war.
Isolated pockets of resistance were still reported to be holding out but it is believed this is due to the failure of the surrender order to reach all German forces still fighting..
The greatest, bloodiest, costliest war in human history that began when Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939 came to an end today after 2,319 days of barbaric ferocity.
Estimates place casualties, killed, wounded and captured at 40,000,000
Surrender pact was signed for the Allies by Lieutenant General Walter Bedell Smith, Chief of Staff for General Eisenhower; General Ivan Susloparoff for Russia, and General Francois Sevez for France.
America greeted the announcement of Germany’s Unconditional surrender with a mixture of emotions. Gaiety,.solemn prayer in streets, and a feeling of excitement swept from coast to coast. New York did not wait for official announcement. People shouted and sang in the streets. A snow storm of waste paper was tossed from buildings. In Washington, President Camena of the Philippines termed the surrender a decisive step along the road to final victory. However, he was emphatic that the United Nations must not halt until Japan is completely crushed.”
Interesting that it says Russia, not soviet union
Just the death estimate is higher now.
>World War II was the deadliest military conflict in history. An estimated total of 70–85 million people perished, or about 3% of the 2.3 billion (est.) people on Earth in 1940.[1] Deaths directly caused by the war (including military and civilian fatalities) are estimated at 50–56 million, with an additional estimated 19–28 million deaths from war-related disease and famine. Civilian deaths totaled 50–55 million. Military deaths from all causes totaled 21–25 million, including deaths in captivity of about 5 million prisoners of war.
>until Japan is completely crushed
They took it literally.