Liberation through Capitulation

May 8, 1945

Victory Day, 63 years ago. Capitulation of the Wehrmacht to the Soviet Army (Keitel to Zhukov) in Berlin Karlshorst.


Tag der Befreiung, vor 63 Jahren. Das wir nie vergessen!

Nie wieder Faschismus! Nie wieder Krieg!

V-E Day already the day before, May 7, the date of signing of the capitulation to the United Allied Forces in Reims effective on May 8.

Here the commemorative stamp issued by the GDR in 1970 for the 25th anniversary with a drawing of the Soviet Army liberation of the Reichstag and hoisting of the red flag atop it in Berlin on May 2.