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Above -- General Alfred Jodl, Chief of the Operations Staff in the German
High Command, signs the document of unconditional German surrender at General
Eisenhower's Headquarters in Reims, France, May 7, 1945. on Jodl's left is
Admiral Von Friedeburg of the German Navy, and on his right is Major Wilhelm
Oxenius of the German General Staff. Below -- German Field Marshall Wilhelm
Keitel signs a surrender document at Soviet headquarters in Berlin, May 9, 1945.
The Soviets had insisted that a second ceremonial signing take place in
Soviet-occupied Berlin. (Photo credits: U.S. National
Archives)
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