Wonderful feeling: After 75 years, Berliner recalls end of WW2 in Europe

Guenther Boehm, contemporary witness of final days of World War 2 in besieged Berlin in May 1945, holds a picture during an Interview in Berlin, Germany, May 7, 2020. REUTERS/Annegret Hilse

BERLIN (Reuters) - As a 15-year-old boy in the capital of Nazi Germany during the final days of the Battle of Berlin in 1945, Guenter Boehm recalls the relief when he realised German soldiers had disappeared and the sound of gunfire had stopped.

"Above all, this feeling that the war was over was wonderful," Boehm, now 90 years old, told Reuters Television.