Derek Knee at the Imperial War Museum in 2005 Credit: Photo: Brian Smith Derek Knee, who has died aged 91, acted as interpreter for Field Marshal Montgomery at the German surrender in May 1945. On ...

Derek Knee (3rd left) from Barry was present at the German surrender in Luneburg and later at the peace treaties ... At Lüneburg Heath a carpeted tent had filled with war correspondents.

Britain’s Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery signs the surrender pact, in a tent at Montgomery’s 21st Army Group headquarters, at Luneburg Heath, May 4, 1945. The pact, signed by senior German ...

April 29: British Field Marshal Harold Alexander accepts the unconditional surrender of German and Italian forces in Italy and western Austria in a ceremony at the Palace of Caserta, north of Naples.