War chronicles: day-by-day. May 2
Published on 03/05/2010
May 2nd, 1945. Berlin surrenders. Troops of the 1st Belarusian Front commanded by Marshal Zhukov destroy the remainder of the German troops and take full control of the city. From a letter by Joseph Stalin to U.S. President Harry Truman: ";The Soviet Command and the Command of the U.S.