Germany does not usually mark the anniversary of the Nazis' unconditional surrender to the Allies with much fanfare. This year however the city of Berlin declared a one-off public holiday on Friday.
In the US, President Donald Trump and his wife Melania will join a wreath-laying ceremony in Washington, DC.
But now only a flypast will take place over the Red Square in Moscow, as the country becomes Europe’s new hotspot of coronavirus infections. “Today, we Germans are allowed to say: the day of liberation is a day of gratitude!” Steinmeier said.Steinmeier’s words evoked a watershed speech by former president Richard von Weizsaecker who in 1985 first urged Germans to remember May 8 not as a day of defeat, but of liberation from the Nazi terror.
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