When Hitler was dead, the war between German and Europe was end. This make the citizens happy because they are in peace
On April 30, 1945, as Russian troops fought to within yards of his
subterranean bunker, Adolph Hitler put a pistol to his head, pulled the
trigger and closed the curtain on the Third Reich. Before his death,
Hitler anointed Admiral Karl Donitz as his successor with orders to
continue the fighting. Hitler was unaware that the German surrender had
already begun.
On the day before his death all German troops in Italy laid down their
arms. On May 4, German forces in Holland, Denmark and northwest Germany
surrendered to British Field Marshall Montgomery. On May 6, Donitz
authorized General Alfred Jodl to "conclude an armistice agreement" with
General Eisenhower. The Germans wanted a separate peace with the allied
troops in the West in order to continue their battle with the Russians
in the East. Eisenhower would have none of it. He ordered the Germans to
surrender unconditionally the next day. The Germans acquiesced, signing
the surrender document on May 7, in the French city of Reims. The
cessation of fighting took effect at 11:01 PM on May 8. The Russians
insisted that a separate signing take place in Berlin on May 9. After
six catastrophic years, the war in Europe was over.
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