Question: When did the second world war end in europe?
Disambiguated questions and answers: question: When did the second world war end in europe as measured by the surrender of Germans on Bear Island?
When did the second world war end in europe as measured by the date that the German Instrument of Surrender took effect?
answer: September 4, 1945
September 4
May 8, 1945
Natural Questions answer: May 1945 (from the Wikipedia article "End of World War II in Europe")