{"id":59696,"date":"2015-05-08T09:59:14","date_gmt":"2015-05-08T13:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=59696"},"modified":"2015-05-08T10:06:45","modified_gmt":"2015-05-08T14:06:45","slug":"v-e-day-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=59696","title":{"rendered":"V-E Day Anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=59697\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-59697\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Victory-in-Europe-300x240.jpg\" alt=\"Victory in Europe\" width=\"300\" height=\"240\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-59697\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Victory-in-Europe-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Victory-in-Europe-416x333.jpg 416w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Victory-in-Europe.jpg 853w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>It was 70 years ago today that the Nazi government of Germany capitulated to the Allies in Berlin, it was also US president Harry Truman&#8217;s 61st birthday. He became president on April 12th when President Franklin Roosevelt died just a few weeks before Adolph Hitler committed suicide on April 30th. The surrender document had been signed on May 7th in Reims, France, and again in Berlin on May 8th (largely for the benefit of the Soviets, but it was May 9th in Moscow when it was signed, so that&#8217;s their traditional V-E day) by the German government headed by Hitler&#8217;s sole surviving successor, Reichspr\u00e4sident Karl D\u00f6nitz. <\/p>\n<p>Fighting continued in the East for weeks after the surrender, though, as German soldiers tried to get to the American and British zones of occupation instead of surrendering to the Red Army. Small German guerrilla units called Werewolf formed to resist the end of the war existed through the 1940s, mostly made up of Hitler Youth adherents who had known nothing but Naziism. The last German troops to surrender in the West, though, were on the Channel Island of Minquiers which had been bypassed during the war. The troops there surrendered to French fishermen on May 23rd.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was 70 years ago today that the Nazi government of Germany capitulated to the Allies &hellip; <a title=\"V-E Day Anniversary\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=59696\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">V-E Day Anniversary<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":59697,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-historical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59696\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/59697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}