Germany's WWII surrender in Reims, Beethoven's Ninth premiere, radio innovations, and major political shifts worldwide.

At 02:41 in a Reims schoolhouse, Nazi Germany signed the paperwork that confirmed what Allied armies had already carved into Europe: the Third Reich was finished.

LONDON (AP) — Cities from London to Moscow will be awash with parades, flyovers and memorials this week as the world marks the 80th anniversary of Victory in Europe Day — the day Nazi Germany ...

LONDON — Cities from London to Moscow will be awash with parades, flyovers and memorials this week as the world marks the 80th anniversary of Victory in Europe Day — the day Nazi Germany surrendered ...

On May 5, 1945, with Hitler dead and Germany ordering every U-boat to cease operations, one German submarine did the ...

May 8 marks 80 years since the close of the European theater in World War II, when Nazi Germany surrendered to the Allies. The fighting in Europe stopped when the Chief of Staff of the German Armed ...

REIMS, France — When Allied forces brought World War II in Europe and the Holocaust to an end 80 years ago this week, AP reporters and photographers were there, chronicling the Nazis’ historic defeat.

“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 ...