Victory in Europe Day

Eighty years ago today, the Brown Socialists of Germany were defeated. My parents married in July when they knew they would survive. Here are some videos of how the UK, Canada, and the US celebrated.

V E Day in London - 1945, a newsreel from 1945.

V E Day began with Mr Churchill's broadcast officially announcing the end of war in Europe. Londoners took to the streets in celebrations which continued for nearly two days. Outside Buckingham Palace the crowds chanted 'we want the King' and were rewarded by the Royal Family appearing on the balcony. At nine o'clock in the evening the King broadcast to Britain and the Commonwealth.

VE Day Buckingham Palace (1945)

V E Day in London - 1945

How Canadians celebrated VE Day in 1945

Morgan Cameron Ross taking a look at how Canadians celebrated VE Day in 1945.

VE Day

At 6 a.m. on May 8, 1945, President Harry Truman announced the end of the war in Europe. Known as Victory in Europe Day, or V-E Day, it celebrates victory over Nazi Germany and its armed forces' unconditional surrender.

President Harry Truman's speech for Victory in Europe Day newsreel 8 May 1945

On May 8, 1945, US President Harry S. Truman addressed the nation from the Oval Office to celebrate that, while the war in the Pacific was far from over, “the flags of freedom fly all over Europe.” May 8th is also Harry Truman's birthday.

They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old;
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.

Lest we forget!