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19457 May 1945 · Reims

German surrender at Reims

General Alfred Jodl signs Germany's unconditional surrender at Allied headquarters in Reims on 7 May 1945
Archival image: Unknown author, U.S. National Archives. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

In the early hours of 7 May 1945, in a technical school serving as Eisenhower's headquarters in Reims, General Alfred Jodl signed the unconditional surrender of all German forces, to take effect late on 8 May. Stalin insisted on a second signing in Berlin the next day. The room where it happened, its walls still hung with the Allies' operations maps, is kept as a museum.

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  1. Site 1: Musée de la Reddition (Museum of the Surrender)The signing room as it was left, with situation maps on the walls.Map ↗

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