Write your own version of a newspaper from 8th May 1945 - VE Day! It is not only that never again need women in London – or Berlin – start at the sound of the telephone because they fear the siren. We have learnt, or should have learn, how dangerous is the spirit of nationalism when harnessed to the fact of power. Browse The Independent’s complete collection of articles and commentary on VE Day. A copy of the Daily Telegraph from Saturday May 11, 1945 You will always find something fun to give to the kids! Parliament will meet at the usual time to-morrow [2.15. p.m.]First news of the enemy surrender was given by the new German Foreign Minister, Count Von Schwerin von Krosigk, in a broadcast over Flensburg radio at 2.30 p.m. yesterday.Then, shortly before four o’clock, a Reuter message from Rheims stated that the surrender actually took place at 2.41 a.m. in the small red school-house there, where Gen. Eisenhower, Allied Supreme Commander, has his headquarters.Gen. “You have been so long coming.” “We have waited so long for you.” “British, they’re British,” the islanders cried.The joy of these people, who have been eating rabbit skins, getting 1½lb of potatoes each a week, who had that morning breakfasted on stewed cabbage leaves, was almost heart-breaking.One man told me he was smoking a cigarette for which he had paid 28s.

VE Day celebrations take place in London.

People from the Sun newspaper handing out free Union Jack flags. In practice the application of the blue-print seems to bring its difficulties, and, even technically, some rather delicate situations have arisen in almost every count, in East and South-east Europe, Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Yugoslavia especially.With that view even the Italian Communists concur, although their desire for good relations with Yugoslavia is sincere, and they are prepared to make generous concessions. It would be not only a solution against the new forces in Europe, but the best guarantee of the continuation of Germany’s imperialist consciousness which would concentrate first on the demarcation lines between the different Germanys.During the past few weeks there has been a clear and dangerous move towards creating spheres of influence within liberated Allied and conquered enemy territory. The day following, Wednesday, May 9, will also be a holiday. People from the Sun newspaper handing out free Union Jack flags. Credit: Matthew Chattle/Alamy Live Newshttps://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-whitehall-london-uk-8th-may-2015-people-from-the-sun-newspaper-handing-82209933.html1945 Union Jack (British military newspaper) front page reporting VE Dayhttps://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-1945-union-jack-british-military-newspaper-front-page-reporting-ve-87336128.htmlNormandy, France, 8th May 2015.
Will there be one Austria reorganised under the supervision of one Power and four Germanys with separate lives in the different zones of occupation.Such a solution would play directly into the hands of the Germans, and there are still amongst them a majority who even in defeat are thinking in terms of power policy alone. late last night said that two German air generals offered to Field-Marshal Montgomery yesterday the surrender of the entire German Air Force.Unconditional Surrender Signed at Gen. Eisenhower’s H.Q.This is VE-Day. VE Day, The Guardian, 8 May 1945. The British Second Army alone is estimated to have taken 500,000 prisoners in the last 24 hours.The remainder of the enemy forces appears to be fleeing to Norway in the hope of a “last ditch” stand there.An armada of several hundred ships, including a long line of U-boats, were seen last night from the air to be abandoning Baltic ports and sailing northwards.

“I will do that,” he said. Then at first thinly, soon rising to great volume of sound, they sang “God Save the King.”They sang with a sob in their throats. Old copies of WWII newspapers including the announcement of Victory in Europe day (Tuesday 8th May 1945) on the front page of The Daily Sketch, Britain's oldest tabloid. The gaunt greyness of hunger is in their eyes and faces.Half of the pre-war population of 40,000 were either driven to slave camps in Germany, or had come to England in 1940.The old people have suffered most of those left in the islands. Here's a fun writing project! 70th Anniversary Ve Day. A copy of the Daily Telegraph from Saturday May 5, 1945

People from the Sun newspaper handing out free Union Jack flags. Fall in visitors to National Trust site has upside for rare bird, as most marsh harrier chicks in decades hatch In the Far East we have yet to deal with the Japanese, a determined and cruel foe.