RECAP: Relive VE Day as it happened 80 years ago when Britain threw epic party to celebrate Germany's surrender in WWII

09-05-2025 00:14 via dailymail.co.uk

RECAP: Relive VE Day as it happened 80 years ago when Britain threw epic party to celebrate Germany's surrender in WWII

LIVE UPDATES: Follow minute by minute details of Britain's VE Day celebrations on May 8, 1945 as the nation celebrated victory over Nazi Germany and the end of the Second World War.

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