On the 7th of May 1945, the German General Alfred Jodl signed the unconditional surrender of Nazi Germany at the Allied ...

Only a few months before, in the summer of 1944, Alfred Jodl had to listen as Der Fuhrer screeched at him in the Wolf's Lair: Jodl, Brennt Paris? No, Paris wasn't burning--because Herr Hitler's people ...

Much of the western world will be commemorating the 80th anniversary of VE Day on May 8 – with, as I understand it, extra pub drinking hours in Britain to toast the occasion. This is as it should be.