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VE Day, 8 May 1945 …. as Nazi Germany Surrenders: In Pictures The King and Queen of Britain with Winston Churchill in between and Princess Elizabeth nd Princess Margaret on the flanks Source:Thuppahis Churchill waves to the crowds below Exhilaration. Joy. Celebrations enmasse. ….. Uninhibited Exuberance in relief.   two lifelong friends Cynthia Covello and Joyce Digney with two unknown jolly buggers …… for details, see https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/who-were-the-women-in-the-trafalgar-square-fountains-on-ve-day   Piccadily Circus as never before     those who paved the way …     AND ….. AND … the immediate event and media-process that sparked these CELEBRATIONS  After Adolf Hitler committed suicide on 30 April 1945, his named successor Grand Admiral Karl Dönitz negotiated an end to the war with the Allies  …. and a German delegation arrived at the headquarters of British Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery at Lüneburg Heath, east of Hamburg, on 4 May[where] Montgomery accepted the unconditional surrender of German forces in the Netherlands, ...