On this day 78 years ago, Europe’s last Axis troops finally surrendered
On this day 78 years ago, Europe’s last Axis troops finally surrendered
The Last Japanese Soldier to surrender (in 1974!): https://youtu.be/l1-svU-5fFc On the 7th of May 1945, the German General Alfred Jodl signed the unconditional surrender of Nazi Germany at the Allied headquarters in Reims, France. It meant the Second World War had come to an end, at least, in the E...
After twelve gruelling months surviving Polar bear attacks and being under constant threat of British Commando ambushes, they were ordered to destroy all their scientific and communications equipment.
Bolshevik Polar bears, to be exact.
For a book on this subject, see Wilhem Dege’s War North of 80: The Last German Arctic Weather Station of World War II.
Other events that happened today (September 4):
1891: Fritz Todt, Axis engineer, was born.
1909: Eduard Wirths, chief SS doctor at Auschwitz, was…born…today.
1939: The Third Reich suffered its first assault from the Royal Air Force.
1941: A Reich submarine assaulted a United States warship, the USS Greer. This was one of the earliest instances of a Fascist empire making a move against its Yankee competitor.
1944: The Axis lost the Belgian city of Antwerp to the British 11th Armoured Division, and Finland exited from the war with the Soviet Union. Simultaneously, the Third Reich executed one of its generals, Fritz Erich Fellgiebel, for conspiring against the head of sate.