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The German officer who chose surrender to save a city
In April 1945, as Allied forces closed in on the Ruhr and German defenses collapsed, Captain Albert Ernst found himself ...
“Our rejoicing is sobered and subdued by a supreme consciousness of the terrible price we have paid to rid the world of Hitler and his evil band. Let us not forget, my fellow Americans, the sorrow and ...
LONDON — — April 16, 1945: The Soviet Red Army begins its final assault on Berlin, the capital of Nazi Germany. — April 28: Former Italian fascist premier Benito Mussolini is executed by Italian ...
Britain’s Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery signs the surrender pact, in a tent at Montgomery’s 21st Army Group headquarters, at Luneburg Heath, May 4, 1945. The pact, signed by senior German officers, ...
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