Parades and memorials across Europe marking 80 years since Nazi Germany's surrender at the end of World War II. Eighty years ago today, Britons gathered around their radios. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED ...

How did World War II end? In Europe, the war ended following the fall of Berlin to Soviet troops, Adolf Hitler’s suicide, and Germany’s unconditional surrender on May 8.

CBS News - Video. How Europe is celebrating the end of WWII. Posted: May 5, 2025 | Last updated: May 5, 2025. Europe is starting to celebrate the 80-year mark of the end of World War II.

LONDON (AP) — Even if the end of World War II in Europe spawned one of the most joyous days the continent ever lived, Thursday’s 80th anniversary of V-E Day is haunted as much by the specter ...

Even if the end of World War II in Europe spawned one of the most joyous days the continent ever lived, Thursday’s 80th anniversary of V-E Day is haunted as much by the specter of current-day ...

What became known as Victory in Europe Day marked the end of World War II in Europe, prior to the end of the entire war, with Japan's surrender nearly four months later, on Sept. 2, 1945.

The day was dubbed V-E Day for Victory in Europe Day. The war against Japan would continue until August 1945. The program, which begins at 3 p.m., is open to the public.

Victory in Europe Day was a moment of relief for a city scarred by bombing raids and rocket attacks that killed an estimated 30,000 civilians throughout the war and didn’t end until just a few ...

May 8 marks the 80th anniversary of the end of fighting in the European Theater of the Second World War. Six years earlier at 4:45 a.m. on Sept. 1, Adolf Hitler sent his Wehrmacht and Luftwaffe ...

Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel signing the unconditional surrender of the German Wehrmacht, May 8, 1945. The commemorations marking the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II in Europe are ...

Even if the end of World War II in Europe spawned one of the most joyous days the continent ever lived, Thursday’s 80th anniversary of V-E Day is haunted as much by the specter of current-day ...

Victory in Europe Day was a moment of relief for a city scarred by bombing raids and rocket attacks that killed an estimated 30,000 civilians throughout the war and didn’t end until just a few ...