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"May 7-8, 1945, Germany surrenders" Topic
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Garde de Paris | 08 May 2024 3:55 a.m. PST |
Germany signed an unconditional surrender in Rheims, France on May 7, and also in Russia (where it was May 8 due to time zone differences). How few remember! GdeP |
Garde de Paris | 08 May 2024 3:55 a.m. PST |
Germany signed an unconditional surrender in Rheims, France on May 7, and also in Russia (where it was May 8 due to time zone differences). How few remember! GdeP |
deadhead ![Supporting Member of TMP Supporting Member of TMP](boards/icons/sp.gif) | 08 May 2024 6:22 a.m. PST |
I expect more publicity next year, as 80th anniversary, but even then I have seen bunting and Union Jack hats being worn today. But you are right, Few under 40 have any idea what VE Day was, let alone the date. That is their privilege however and the sort of right for which the war was fought. Might not be how we see it, but they now have that choice, as the good guys won the war. |
Shagnasty ![Supporting Member of TMP Supporting Member of TMP](boards/icons/sp.gif) | 08 May 2024 2:58 p.m. PST |
My thanks to all those who suffered to make that possible. |
Cuprum2 | 08 May 2024 7:56 p.m. PST |
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foxbat ![Supporting Member of TMP Supporting Member of TMP](boards/icons/sp.gif) | 09 May 2024 9:31 a.m. PST |
Don't call me grammar nazi for it, Garde de Paris, but it is Reims, not Rheims. The crowning place of the kings of France, and the world capital of champagne ![wink wink](boards/icons/wink.gif) |
deadhead ![Supporting Member of TMP Supporting Member of TMP](boards/icons/sp.gif) | 09 May 2024 1:30 p.m. PST |
Naw. I've been there. Nice Cathedral. But surely an "h" in it. Surely….. er. No….I will never feel quite the same about the place I last visited in 1971. It is somehow not the same |
piper909 ![Supporting Member of TMP Supporting Member of TMP](boards/icons/sp.gif) | 09 May 2024 9:38 p.m. PST |
I understand that Reims / Rheims is more an issue of French usage versus anglicization. Possibly modified by archaic usage in some books or sources. Neither is entirely "wrong" per se. I've been there, too, and the cathedral is amazing. 8 May, Joan of Arc festival in Orleans and also VE -Day and St. Michael's Day! Big parades and festivities in Orleans, which I have attended and tremendously enjoyed. |
dogtail | 24 Jul 2024 10:56 a.m. PST |
Karlshorst is the place where the Wehrmacht surrendered to Russia. It is a district of Berlin, but not in Russia. |
Joe Legan | 24 Jul 2024 1:13 p.m. PST |
I have been fortunate to have been to both places. I actually saw the surrender room in Berlin. It was on a Russian army base there in 1986. I visited while we were "allies". Very cool. Joe |
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