More stories from VE Day include the journalists who secured a German surrender in Norway, and the Nazi weather station in Svalbard which has heard of the end of the war and is now stranded www.thetimes.com/article/ac4b... #veday80 - ThreadSky

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More stories from VE Day include the journalists who secured a German surrender in Norway, and the Nazi weather station in Svalbard which has heard of the end of the war and is now stranded

https://www.thetimes.com/article/ac4b042a-6d11-4364-a3c0-20a70dc1abfa?shareToken=6bac54aea235bd1e543260e5bb2a76ab #veday80

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As Europe celebrates, Germany lies in total ruin and the women are picking up the pieces of Hitler’s War

https://www.thetimes.com/article/ac4b042a-6d11-4364-a3c0-20a70dc1abfa?shareToken=a9324c5642e1ddd9b09996ab4ed7e6b6 #veday80

Churchill is preparing for his broadcast to the nation, from the same room where war was declared almost six years previously

Meanwhile, in Glasgow, beer stocks already look worryingly low…

https://www.thetimes.com/article/ac4b042a-6d11-4364-a3c0-20a70dc1abfa?shareToken=8a26f662ac4bf9eb43b665871c93c66e #veday80

The prime minister has addressed the nation and announced that hostilities in Europe will cease at 12.01am

https://www.thetimes.com/article/ac4b042a-6d11-4364-a3c0-20a70dc1abfa?shareToken=a3ab5f7ad6a06bca24416db4202113c6 #veday80

One figure who is absent is the prime minister’s wife Clementine, who is representing the nation in Russia today. She has, however, been in touch with her husband during the momentous day.

https://www.thetimes.com/article/ac4b042a-6d11-4364-a3c0-20a70dc1abfa?shareToken=ef90f2730798ef94d6c8811098d471ac #veday80

After Churchill spoke to the Commons, MPs have processed to a thanksgiving service at the church of St Margaret’s

https://www.thetimes.com/article/ac4b042a-6d11-4364-a3c0-20a70dc1abfa?shareToken=57aab3fcb6746972b7d66aa3fffc2abe #veday80

Live posting here got a little knocked off course here by some small news elsewhere in the modern day…. But, to resume!

This is a really cool thread

Thank you!

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