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WW2 Pod: We Have Ways of Making You Talk

VE Day: Victory In Europe (Part 8)

WW2 Pod: We Have Ways of Making You Talk

Goalhanger Podcasts

Society & Culture, History, Education

4.84.4K Ratings

🗓️ 6 May 2025

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Why is VE Day celebrated on May 8th? What did the end of the war look like for Field Marshal Montgomery and his men? What happened at the surrenders, when Supreme Commander Eisenhower refused to sign? Al and Jim discuss what the Nazis were doing to get a favourable surrender for Germany after 6 years of barbaric conflict, and how the Allies disagreed on how and when the end should come. Join James Holland & Al Murray as they uncover the pivotal but often overlooked final moments of WW2 in Europe. SERIES ARE AVAILABLE FOR MEMBERS EARLY & AD FREE - SIGN UP AT patreon.com/wehaveways A Goalhanger Production Produced by James Regan Exec Producer: Tony Pastor Social: @WeHaveWaysPod Email: [email protected] Join our ‘Independent Company’ to watch exclusive livestreams, get presale events, and our weekly newsletter book and model discounts. Membership Club: patreon.com/wehaveways Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Thank you for listening to We Have Ways of Making You Talk.

0:05.0

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0:13.0

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0:16.0

That's patreon.com slash we have ways Daily Express from Moorhead, Montgomery Field Headquarters, May 4th, Take 1. Stop.

0:38.9

Here, on a wild stretch of heath to south of Lunenburg, precisely 6.25 p.m. today,

0:44.1

Montgomery signed peace with Germany. Stop.

0:46.4

Five German officers walked into the tent and stood behind their chairs at a table

0:50.1

over which a grey army blanket had been thrown. Stop.

0:52.8

Presently Montgomery arrived and as he took his place at the end of the table,

0:56.3

the five Germans saluted and in silence they sat down together.

0:59.7

Stop.

1:00.3

Montgomery took out his spectacles and in a slow, careful voice,

1:03.5

dash, his voice is never strong at any time, undash, read out the following terms of surrender.

1:08.6

Stop.

1:09.3

Love it.

1:09.9

And that was a telegram to the Daily Express

1:12.0

by Alan Moorhead,

1:13.4

a Tyro reporter who followed Monty all the way

1:16.6

through the Second World War,

1:17.7

basically, didn't he?

1:18.5

From Desert all the way to the end.

1:20.7

Can I say that if the Daily Express

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