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Subject: Victory Day! Sat May 08, 2010 4:38 pm
Today and Tomorrow is Victory Day!
Victory Day marks the capitulation of Nazi Germany in the Second World War. This surrender document was signed late in the evening on May 8, 1945 (May 9 by Moscow Time). The Soviet government announced the victory early on May 9 after the signing ceremony in Berlin.
Representatives:
Soviet Union: Marshal Georgy Zhukov on behalf of the Supreme High Command of the Red Army
United Kingdom: Deputy Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force, Marshal of the Royal Air Force Arthur William Tedder
United States: General Carl Spaatz, Commanding United States Strategic Air Forces
France: General Jean de Lattre de Tassigny, Commanding First French Army
Nazi Germany: Admiral Hans-Georg von Friedeburg as Commander-in-Chief of the Kriegsmarine Colonel-General Hans-Jürgen Stumpff as the representative of the Luftwaffe Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel as the Chief of Staff of the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victory_day http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victory_Day_%28May_9%29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victory_in_Europe_Day Long live the Great Victory Day!