Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, Kershaw wrote, wanted a tacit acknowledgment that the Red Army had borne the brunt of the fighting and dying by signing a surrender document in the German capital with ...

Gustav Jodl, chief of staff of Admiral Doenitz' government and long-time close friend of Adolf Hitler, surrendered all German armed ... are four copies of the surrender document, and in addition ...

Eisenhower's top secret message announcing victory in Europe is set to fetch $30k at auction - alongside with other WWII ...

Alfred Jodl, and Adm. Hans-Georg von Friedeburg signed the unconditional German surrender document at the Allied headquarters in Reims, eastern France on May 7, 1945. Jodl would later be sentenced ...

Worried that Germany could again insist that its surrender was illegitimate if anyone but Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel, the supreme commander of all German forces, personally signed the document ...

German military and political ... While a Soviet military aide signed that document on his country’s behalf, the Soviets insisted that the surrender would count only if it were in Berlin ...

At 102, Graziano vividly remembers what he saw that day, when it was unclear whether the Germans would sign the surrender document. “I saw a lot of straight faces,” he told CNN. “Germans ...

It had been 2:41am in Reims, France, when German envoys signed the act of unconditional surrender inside a red‑brick schoolhouse that served as General Dwight D. Eisenhower’s headquarters.

Walter “Hutch” Huchthausen sent US businessman and author Robert Edsel on an eight year odyssey to document the history ... a month before the German surrender, Huchthausen and his driver ...