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...that Joseph Stalin and Churchill were bitterly at odds about who would rule Poland. And he had to address the diplomats assembling in San Francisco to create an organization to be called the United Nations. "You are to be the architects of the better world," he told them by radio. "In your hands rests our future...
...Radio reporters immediately began broadcasting the news. On the floor of the U.N. conference, a Chilean delegate waved an extra edition of the San Francisco Call-Bulletin with the screaming headline NAZIS QUIT. The delegates burst into applause. Cheering crowds gathered in the streets of New York City and Chicago. An hour and a half later, President Truman called in reporters and announced that the story was untrue...
Admiral Doenitz went on the radio to declare that "the military struggle continues [against] the spreading of Bolshevism." But German soldiers were now surrendering by the tens of thousands. Two days after Hitler's suicide, all German forces in Italy gave up. On May 4 all Wehrmacht troops in northwestern Germany, Denmark and the Netherlands surrendered to the British. On May 5 and 6 Doenitz sent Admiral Hans von Friedeburg and General Alfred Jodl to negotiate complete surrender to Eisenhower. The Germans' only goal now was to yield as much territory and as many troops as possible to the Western...
Raymond Hallery, now a retired publisher, was in an adjunct of the Mauthausen concentration camp near Linz when the official announcement that the Germans had surrendered came over the prisoners' long-secret radio. The French began singing the Marseillaise. "There was the joy of being alive, but it was mixed with much sadness," Hallery says. "Two hundred to three hundred people a day were still dying in the camp, from exhaustion and hunger. There were bodies everywhere." Hallery went to the infirmary where one of his friends lay nearing the end. "I know I'm finished," the friend said...
...until the next day, on a chilly gray morning that happened to be Truman's 61st birthday, did the new President go on the radio and read his formal proclamation: "The Allied armies, through sacrifice and devotion and with God's help...