WHAT ALL HAPPENED APRIL TO JUNE 1945
Find out what all happened April to June 1945

World War II: The Battle of Königsberg, in East Prussia, ends. (9. April 1945)

World War II: Ratification in Berlin-Karlshorst of the German unconditional surrender of May 8 in Rheims, France, with the signatures of Marshal Georgy Zhukov for the Soviet Union, and for the Western Headquarters Sir Arthur Tedder, British Air Marshal and Eisenhower's deputy, and for the German side of Colonel-General Hans-Jürgen Stumpff as the representative of the Luftwaffe, Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel as the Chief of Staff of OKW, and Admiral Hans-Georg von Friedeburg as Commander-in-Chief of the Kriegsmarine. (9. May 1945)

World War II: The Captain class frigate HMS Goodall K479 is torpedoed by U-286 outside the Kola Inlet becoming the last ship of the Royal Navy sunk in the European theatre of World War II. (29. April 1945)

The United States Army liberates Nazi Sonderlager (high security) prisoner-of-war camp Oflag IV-C (better known as Colditz). (16. April 1945)

World War II: The Flensburg Government under Reichspräsident Karl Dönitz is dissolved when its members are captured and arrested by British forces at Flensburg in Northern Germany. (23. May 1945)

Osijek, Croatia, is liberated from fascist occupation. (14. April 1945)

The Yugoslav partisans free Trieste. (1. May 1945)

World War II: The Channel Islands are liberated by the British after five years of German occupation. (9. May 1945)

World War II: Visoko is liberated by the 7th, 9th, and 17th Krajina brigades from the Tenth division of Yugoslav Partisan forces. (7. April 1945)

World War II: the Battle of Slater's Knoll on Bougainville comes to an end. (6. April 1945)

The Halifax Riot starts when thousands of civilians and servicemen rampage through Halifax. (8. May 1945)

World War II: Denmark is granted liberation, when Germany was forced to step out of Denmark thus ending 5 years of occupation. (4. May 1945)

World War II: The Battle of Okinawa ends when the organized resistance of Imperial Japanese Army forces collapses in the Mabuni area on the southern tip of the main island. (21. June 1945)

World War II: Führerbunker: Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun commit suicide after being married for one day. Soviet soldiers raise the Victory Banner over the Reichstag building. (30. April 1945)

The Red Army begins the final assault on German forces around Berlin, with nearly one million troops fighting in the Battle of the Seelow Heights. (16. April 1945)

End of the Prague uprising, celebrated now as a national holiday in the Czech Republic. (8. May 1945)

More than 7,000 die when the German refugee ship Goya is sunk by a Soviet submarine torpedo. (16. April 1945)

Benito Mussolini and his mistress Clara Petacci are executed by a firing squad consisting of members of the Italian resistance movement. (28. April 1945)

World War II: The Prague Offensive, the last major battle of the Eastern Front, begins. (6. May 1945)

World War II: Neuengamme concentration camp near Hamburg is liberated by the British Army. (4. May 1945)