On 5 May 1945, a few days after Hitler’s suicide, American soldiers under command of US Army Captain John C. "Jack" Lee, Jr.

Beckum, Germany, May 8, 1945: Smiling U.S. Ninth Army soldiers in Beckum, Germany, hold extra editions of Stars and Stripes announcing news of Germany’s surrender. The soldiers en route to mess with ...

Red Army soldiers hoist the Soviet flag over the Reichstag in Berlin, May 2, 1945. The German Parliament (Bundestag) has excluded the ambassadors of Russia and Belarus from the main commemoration of ...