Obersturmbannführer Rudolf Höss was overall commandant of the Auschwitz complex from May 1940 – November 1943 ; Obersturmbannführer Arthur Liebehenschel from November 1943 – May 1944 ; and Sturmbannführer Richard Baer from May 1944 – January 1945.

During the Western Allied invasion of Germany in April 1945, the airfield was seized by the United States Third Army, and used by the USAAF 354th Fighter Group which flew P-47 Thunderbolts from the aerodrome ( designated ALG R-82 ) from late April until the German capitulation on 7 May 1945.

On 4 May 1945 he took the German surrender at Luneburg Heath in northern Germany.

Eversharp, a maker of mechanical pencils, teamed up with Eberhard Faber in May 1945 to license the design for sales in the United States.

Following the end of the war in Europe in May 1945, Attlee and Churchill wanted the coalition government to last until Japan had been defeated.

As the war began to wind down with Germany's surrender in May 1945, the team parlayed Brown's ties to college football and the military to build its roster.

In 1945, Engelbart had read with interest Vannevar Bush's article " As We May Think ", a call to action for making knowledge widely available as a national peacetime grand challenge.

In January 1944, he resumed command of ETOUSA and the following month was officially designated as the Supreme Allied Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force ( SHAEF ), serving in a dual role until the end of hostilities in Europe in May 1945.

From then until the end of the war in Europe on May 8, 1945, Eisenhower through SHAEF had command of all Allied forces, and through his command of ETOUSA, administrative command of all U. S. forces, on the Western Front north of the Alps.

The Soviets, along with the Polish, captured Berlin in a very large-scale bloody battle, and the Germans finally surrendered on May 7, 1945.

David Huffman ( 10 May 1945 – 27 February 1985 ) was a character actor with many television, film and stage credits.

In May 1945, after a year of growing hostility between the president and the assembly, which was vainly awaiting deeds to substantiate Velasco's rhetorical advocacy of social justice, the mercurial chief executive condemned and then repudiated the newly completed constitution.

At the end of World War II in Europe, in May 1945, the U. S. Army's Information and Educational Branch was ordered to establish an overseas university campus for demobilized American service men and women in Florence, Italy.

When the war ended in May 1945, as many as two million former Russian citizens were forcefully repatriated into the USSR.

In the spring of 1945 Germany itself was invaded from the east by the Soviet Union and from the west by the other Allies respectively ; After Red Army conquered the Reichstag in Berlin, Hitler committed suicide and Germany surrendered in early May ending the war in Europe.

Following the Allied invasion of Normandy ( June 1944 ), the German army was pushed back on all fronts until the final collapse in May 1945.

Final German surrender was signed on 8 May 1945.

On 5 May 1945, the war ended after liberation by mainly Canadian forces.

Heinrich Luitpold Himmler ( 7 October 1900 – 23 May 1945 ) was Reichsführer of the Schutzstaffel ( SS ), a military commander, and a leading member of the Nazi Party ( NSDAP ) of Nazi Germany.

While in British custody, he committed suicide on 23 May 1945.

In 1945, Vannevar Bush wrote an article in The Atlantic Monthly called " As We May Think ", about a futuristic proto-hypertext device he called a Memex.

Hamburg surrendered without a fight to British Forces on 3 May 1945.

Colonel Benjamin Ford wrote to Morgan from Wilmington that he understood a Mrs. Sanderson from Maryland had obtained permission from Smallwood to visit Philadelphia, and would return on May 26th, escorted by several officers from Maryland `` belonging to the new levies in the British service ''.

After Kahn's death in 1924 Scott wrote: `` May he rest in peace with the eternal gratitude of his adopted country ''.

In May, 1803, Ritter, in another flight of fancy, wrote to Oersted a letter that contained a remarkable prophecy.

" We hardly earn the bread ", wrote Abby May to her brother, " the butter we have to think about.

Abby May wrote in her journal on January 17, 1843, " A day of some excitement, as Mr. Alcott refused to pay his town tax ... After waiting some time to be committed jail, he was told it was paid by a friend.

Louisa May Alcott, who was ten years old at the time, later wrote of the experience in Transcendental Wild Oats ( 1873 ): " The band of brothers began by spading garden and field ; but a few days of it lessened their ardor amazingly.

Mozart wrote to his father in May 1783 about Salieri and Lorenzo Da Ponte, the court poet: " You know those Italian gentlemen ; they are very nice to your face!

" The secret of how to live without resentment or embarrassment in a world in which I was different from everyone else ," Capp philosophically wrote ( in Life magazine on May 23, 1960 ), " was to be indifferent to that difference.

Around May 1999, Philip Njaru wrote a newspaper article where he alleged ill-treatment of civilians conducted by the 11th Navy Battalion based in Ekondo-Titi.

The Cottage was lived in by Edward Bulwer-Lytton ( who wrote The Last Days of Pompeii ) and other somewhat notable ( and moneyed ) persons until it was destroyed by fire in May 1888.

The idea was first documented in a memo that Metcalfe wrote on May 22, 1973.

In May 1565 she wrote to Cecil, urging that the money from family properties set aside for Oxford's use during his minority by his father's will should be entrusted to herself and other family friends to protect it and ensure that he would be able to meet the expenses of furnishing his household and suing his livery when he reached his majority ; this last would end his wardship though cancelling his debt with that Court, and convey the powers attached to his title.

On 16 May 1545, Xavier wrote to the King of Portugal to establish the Inquisition in Goa: " The second necessity for the Christians is that Your Majesty establish the Holy Inquisition in Goa because there are many who live according to the Jewish Law and according to the Mohammedan Sect, without any fear of God or shame of the World.

On May 25, 1780, Hopkinson wrote a letter to the Continental Board of Admiralty mentioning several patriotic designs he had completed during the previous three years.

He wrote a letter on 6 May — two days before German Instrument of Surrender — formally dismissing Himmler from all his posts.

Connick did the arrangements for, wrote a couple of songs, and sang a duet on Kelli O ' Hara's album that was released in May 2008.

Ratebzad wrote the famous New Kabul Times editorial ( May 28, 1978 ) which declared: " Privileges which women, by right, must have are equal education, job security, health services, and free time to rear a healthy generation for building the future of the country ...

As in 1942, he was more outspoken about what was happening than Himmler would have liked: " Our state ’ s security requires that we take whatever measures seem necessary to protect the German community from Jewish threat ," he wrote in May.

Cocteau wrote the libretto for Igor Stravinsky's opera-oratorio Oedipus Rex, which had its original performance in the Théâtre Sarah Bernhardt in Paris on May 30, 1927.

However, such an act was never a real possibility ; upon debriefing Philby in London on 24 May 1937, Maly wrote to the NKVD, " Though devoted and ready to sacrifice himself, does not possess the physical courage and other qualities necessary for this attempt.

" Gene Youngblood, in the May 10, 1968 of LA Free Express, wrote, " Soft, subtle.

Knowing her death was imminent, May Belle Mitchell wrote her daughter a brief letter and advised her:

In May 1926, after Mitchell had left her job at the Atlanta Journal and was recovering at home from her ankle injury, she wrote a society column for the Sunday Magazine, " Elizabeth Bennet's Gossip ", which she continued to write until August.

In 2004, May wrote that Oxford's poetry was " one man's contribution to the rhetorical mainstream of an evolving Elizabethan poetic " and challenged readers to distinguish any of it from " the output of his mediocre mid-century contemporaries ".