D-Day 80: Veteran found out WW2 in Europe was over two days before rest of the world
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A D-Day veteran found out the Nazis had surrendered and the Second World War in Europe was going to end 48 hours before the rest of the world. Bernard Morgan, 100, was working as an RAF codebreaker in 1945 when he deciphered a secret telex which read: "The German War is now over. At Rheims last night the instrument of surrender was signed which in effect is a surrender of all personnel of the German forces - all equipment and shipping and all machinery in Germany. "Nothing will be destroyed...

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