Berlin Victory Parade of 1945

The Berlin Victory Parade of 1945 was held by the Allies of World War II on 7 September 1945 in Berlin, the capital of the defeated Germany, shortly after the end of World War II.

[4] General Dwight D. Eisenhower and Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery declined the invitations shortly before the parade, and sent Patton and Robertson as their representatives.

[8] The forces of four Allies also participated in another Berlin parade several months later, on the Charlottenburger Chaussee, in front of the Brandenburg Gate, on the first anniversary of the German surrender on 8 May 1946, in the Berlin Victory Parade of 1946.

[9][10] This parade was connected to the inauguration of the Soviet War Memorial at Tiergarten.

[9][10] Soviet troops would not be present at the much more widely known in the West London Victory Celebrations of 1946.

French tricolor on the Victory Column statue during the parade