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The United Nations recognizes May 8th and 9th as “Time of Remembrance and Reconciliation for Those Who Lost Their Lives during the Second World War.”

Victory in Europe Day, generally known as VE Day (Great Britain) or V-E Day (North America), is celebrated on Tuesday, 8 May 1945 to mark the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Nazi Germany’s unconditional surrender of its armed forces.”

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