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The Germans surrender
After the suicide of Hitler on 30 April 1945, it was left to Grand Admiral Donitz, who had been President of the Third Reich for a week, to surrender.
Donitz travelled to General Eisenhower's HQ at Reims in France, and, in the presence of senior officers from Britain, America, Russia and France, surrendered unconditionally to the Western and Russian demands on 7 May 1945.
The British rejoice
The war-weary British began to rejoice straight away rather than waiting for the official day of celebration on the 8th.
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There had been years of austerity and rationing: five inches of water for a bath, few eggs, no bananas and the motto 'make do and mend'. Half a million homes had been destroyed, thousands of civilians had been killed and many millions of lives disrupted.
And although the casualty lists from the battlefields were lower than in World War One, they were still terrible.
All across the nation people turned on the wireless to find out more. People wer