V-E Day is proclaimed...
Item # 724656
May 08, 1945
DAILY NEWS, New York City, May 8, 1945
* Surrender of Germany - Nazis
* V-E Day celebrations underway
The entire front page is taken up with a huge photo of a large, gleeful crowd in New York City with the words: " IT'S OVER IN EUROPE ! " dropped out of the photo.
Also on the front page is: "Proclamation Due At 9.A.M." There are related articles on pages 2 & 3, and the doublepage centerfold, plus the back page has a banner headline: "500,000 IN TIMES SQUARE".
Complete in 32 pages, tabloid-size, in uncommonly nice condition.
Background: The surrender of Nazi Germany on May 8, 1945, known as V-E Day, represented the formal end of nearly six years of cataclysmic warfare in Europe and the total collapse of Adolf Hitler’s Third Reich. While the preliminary act of military surrender was signed in Reims, France, on May 7, the Allied powers coordinated the official proclamation for the following day to ensure a simultaneous celebration across the globe. For New Yorkers, the news triggered a massive, spontaneous outpouring of emotion, drawing over half a million people to Times Square in a blizzard of ticker tape and communal relief. This moment was historically pivotal not only because it halted the Holocaust and the systematic destruction of European nations, but also because it marked the transition of the United States into a definitive global superpower. Despite the jubilation, the significance of V-E Day was tempered by the sobering reality that the war in the Pacific against Imperial Japan was still raging, and the full, horrific scale of the concentration camps was only just beginning to be understood by the public through the very newspapers they held in their hands.
* Surrender of Germany - Nazis
* V-E Day celebrations underway
The entire front page is taken up with a huge photo of a large, gleeful crowd in New York City with the words: " IT'S OVER IN EUROPE ! " dropped out of the photo.
Also on the front page is: "Proclamation Due At 9.A.M." There are related articles on pages 2 & 3, and the doublepage centerfold, plus the back page has a banner headline: "500,000 IN TIMES SQUARE".
Complete in 32 pages, tabloid-size, in uncommonly nice condition.
Background: The surrender of Nazi Germany on May 8, 1945, known as V-E Day, represented the formal end of nearly six years of cataclysmic warfare in Europe and the total collapse of Adolf Hitler’s Third Reich. While the preliminary act of military surrender was signed in Reims, France, on May 7, the Allied powers coordinated the official proclamation for the following day to ensure a simultaneous celebration across the globe. For New Yorkers, the news triggered a massive, spontaneous outpouring of emotion, drawing over half a million people to Times Square in a blizzard of ticker tape and communal relief. This moment was historically pivotal not only because it halted the Holocaust and the systematic destruction of European nations, but also because it marked the transition of the United States into a definitive global superpower. Despite the jubilation, the significance of V-E Day was tempered by the sobering reality that the war in the Pacific against Imperial Japan was still raging, and the full, horrific scale of the concentration camps was only just beginning to be understood by the public through the very newspapers they held in their hands.
Category: The 20th Century
