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1945  April 30
 
   
Anglo-US Fascist William Joyce ('Lord Haw Haw') makes his final English broadcast from Hamburg      
1945  May 1
 
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In the Berlin bunker, on the day after Hitler's death, Goebbels arranges for his six children to be lethally injected, and himself and his wife to be shot       
1945  May 2
 
   
The German general commanding Berlin, Karl Weidling, surrenders the city to the Allies      
1945  May 4
 
   
British general Bernard Montgomery receives the surrender of German forces in the north and west of Europe      
1945  May 5
 
  
The citizens of Prague, and other cities in Czechoslovakia, rise against the Germans as the Red Army approaches from the east     
1945  May 7
 
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The unconditional surrender of all German forces is accepted at Eisenhower's headquarters      
1945  May 8
 
   
World War II ends in Europe on V-E day (Victory in Europe day)      
1945  May 23
 
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Heinrich Himmler, escaping in disguise, takes poison when he is identified      
1945 June 21
 
    
The Sudetenland is restored to Czechoslovakia, seven years after its transfer to Germany under the Munich Agreement       
1945 June 22
 
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After a ferocious three-month battle, Okinawa is in US hands