Zero hour (1945)
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Zero hour is a term which is used in reference to the capitulation of Germany at midnight on 8 May 1945 and the weeks which immediately followed it in Germany. It marked the end of World War II in Eur
Ruined buildings in Nuremberg, May 1945
Trümmerfrauen at work in Berlin, July 1946
Allied-occupied Germany
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The entirety of Germany was occupied and administered by the Allies of World War II, from the Berlin Declaration on 5 June 1945 to the establishment of West Germany on 23 May 1949. Nazi Germany was st
Royal Air Force's Malcolm Club in Schleswig, formerly the Stadt Hamburg Hotel in late 1945.
British armored car, at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, 1950.
French forces in front of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, 1946
The Supreme Commanders of the Four Powers on 5 June 1945 in Berlin: Bernard Montgomery, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Georgy Zhukov, and Jean de Lattre de Tassigny