The Surrender of German forces
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Surrender of German forces at the end of World War II.
Chronology
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May 1945: German forces in Bavaria surrender.
May 1945: General Franz Böhme announced the unconditional surrender of German troops in Norway.
May 1945: German forces on the Channel Islands surrender.
May 1945: At the end of World War II Greece freed its islands from German forces.
May 1945: The German garrisons of most of the last Atlantic pockets in France, in Dunkirk and La Rochelle, surrendered to the Allies.
May 1945: The Soviets forced the German units in Army Group Centre, that were located in Bohemia, to capitulate by 11 May.
May 1945: Resistance in Latvia ceases as German Sixteenth and Eighteenth Armies begin surrendering to forces of Leningrad Front.
May 1945: Soviet forces complete capture of Berlin. German forces surrender.
May 1945: German forces in North West Germany, Denmark, and the Netherlands surrender.
May 1945: The Atlantic Pocket of Lorient surrendered to French forces.
May 1945: The German Atlantic Pocket of Saint-Nazaire surrendered.
Selected Sources
Dollinger, Hans. The Decline and the Fall of Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan, Library of Congress Catalogue Card Number 67-27047. p. 239
Williams, M.H. (1989): United States army in World War II - Special Studies - Chronology 1941-1945, p. 528
Williams, M.H. (1989): United States army in World War II - Special Studies - Chronology 1941-1945, p. 530
Williams, M.H. (1989): United States army in World War II - Special Studies - Chronology 1941-1945, p. 534
