In early April, the first Allied-governed Rheinwiesenlager camps were established in western Germany to hold hundreds of thousands of captured or surrendered Axis Forces personnel. In the three to four months up to the end of April, over 800,000 German soldiers surrendered on the Eastern Front. April also witnessed the capture of at least 120,000 German troops by the Western Allies in the last campaign of the war in Italy. Main article: Timeline of the surrender of Axis forces at the end of World War IIĪllied forces begin to take large numbers of Axis prisoners: The total number of prisoners taken on the Western Front in April 1945 by the Western Allies was 1,500,000. įinal events before the end of the war in Europe The last battles were fought on the Eastern Front which ended in the total surrender of all of Nazi Germany’s remaining armed forces such as in the Courland Pocket in western Latvia from Army Group Courland in the Baltics surrendering on and in Czechoslovakia during the Prague offensive on. After German dictator Adolf Hitler's suicide and handing over of power to grand admiral Karl Dönitz in May 1945, Soviet troops conquered Berlin and accepted surrender of the Dönitz-led government. The final battles of the European theatre of World War II continued after the definitive surrender of Nazi Germany to the Allies, signed by Field marshal Wilhelm Keitel on in Karlshorst, Berlin.
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