Rain fails to dampen Midlander's spirits Rain damped the decorations but not the spirit of thankfulness and joy with which West Midlanders this morning greeted V-Day.
Midlands Memories general
Mr Churchill's historic broadcast At three o'clock this afternoon Mr Churchill, Britain's victory Premier, broadcast that hostilities in Europe would end at one minute past midnight.
World awaits end of Europe war The Allied world is tensely awaiting developments which may end the war in Europe at any moment.
Fight for power after Hitler's death Following the announcement by German radio last night that Hitler had died fighting at his command post in the Berlin Reich Chancellery, it looks as if a great struggle for power is now raging.
Hamburg taken without a shot Hamburg, Germany's greatest port and chief pocket of reisteance along the North Sea coast, fell to the British today without a shot being fired.
Bonfires and parties of victory There were bonfires and street parties in most West Midland towns and districts, both Tuesday and Wednesday, the victory celebration days.
Hitler's body said to be found Russian troops have found a body purported to be Hitler's in the ruins of Berlin, it has been disclosed.
Germans will see atrocity films Allied films of German atrocities will be compulsorily shown to German civilians, among whom magazines with fully documented accounts of such camps as Buchenwald will be distributed.
'Nazi Party ended,' says Doenitz Admiral Doenitz, in a broadcast to the German people today, said: "In my first speech to the German people on May 1st I declared it was my task to save German lives.
Wolverhampton's V-Sunday message It was the turn of the people of Wolverhampton to receive their due meed of praise for their war effort from the chief citizen, the mayor at Sunday's thanksgiving parade at Molineux.
E&S comment: The end and the beginning The long drawn out agony in Europe is over. In profound thankfulness millions of people who have endured strains which once would have been thought beyond the power of humanity to bear, hail their deliverance from a very great tribulation.
The King and Queen appeared on the balcony of Buckingham Palace with the two Princesses, at eleven minutes past three today and waved to the cheering crowd for three minutes.
Victory as Germans surrender The Allies today officially announced from General Eisenhower's headquarters in Rheims that Germany had surrendered unconditionally.
