When did the second world war end in europe?
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When did the second world war end in europe as measured by the surrender of Germans on Bear Island?
September 4, 1945 September 4
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When did the second world war end in europe as measured by the date that the German Instrument of Surrender took effect?
May 8, 1945
Bear Island
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World War II
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End of World War II in Europe
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Bear Island (Norway)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bear%20Island%20%28Norway%29
The final battles of the European Theatre of World War II, as well as the overall surrender of Nazi Germany to the Allies, took place in late April and early May 1945.
End of World War II in Europe
The German Instrument of Surrender (German: Bedingungslose Kapitulation der Wehrmacht; Russian: Акт о капитуляции Германии) was the legal document that effected the extinction of Nazi Germany and ended World War II in Europe.
German Instrument of Surrender
The definitive text was signed in Karlshorst, Berlin, on the night of 8 May 1945 by representatives of the three armed services of the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht (OKW) and the Allied Expeditionary Force together with the Supreme High Command of the Soviet Red Army, with further French and US representatives signing as witnesses.
German Instrument of Surrender
The other forces which did not surrender on 8 May surrendered piecemeal: A small group of German soldiers, deployed on Svalbard in Operation Haudegen to establish and man a weather station there, lost radio contact in May 1945; they surrendered to some Norwegian seal hunters on 4 September, two days after Japan formally surrendered.
End of World War II in Europe Timeline of surrenders and deaths
The final battles of the European Theatre of World War II, as well as the overall surrender of Nazi Germany to the Allies, took place in late April and early May 1945. The German Instrument of Surrender was the legal document that effected the extinction of Nazi Germany and ended World War II in Europe. The definitive text was signed in Karlshorst, Berlin, on the night of May 8, 1945 by representatives of the three armed services of the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht (OKW) and the Allied Expeditionary Force together with the Supreme High Command of the Soviet Red Army, with further French and US representatives signing as witnesses. A small group of German soldiers, deployed on Svalbard in Operation Haudegen to establish and man a weather station there, lost radio contact in May 1945 and they surrendered to some Norwegian seal hunters on Bear Island on September 4, 1945.