VE Day

The Daily Mail

Tuesday 8 May 1945

     

 

Front page

  

Revellers in Piccadilly swarm over a car until it is almost invisible.

  

  

A man waves a Union Jack from the top of a lamp-post.

  

A map showing what was left of Germany at the time of surrender

Londoners celebrate round a bonfire

  

Female revellers use up their petrol.

  

  

This cartoon shows the Nazi leaders as evil vampires fleeing the devastation they have caused.