German Instrument of Surrender (7 May 1945)
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The German Instrument of Surrender was the legal instrument by which the High Command of the German Armed Forces surrendered simultaneously to the Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force and to the Soviet High Command at the end of World War II in Europe. Before the main body of the German military surrendered, there were partial surrenders of components of the German military.
This is the preliminary Instrument of Surrender, which was signed on 7 May, 1945, at Reims, France. The definitive signing took place in Berlin on 9 May 1945 (back-dated to 8 May 1945). The Reims signing took place in a red brick schoolhouse that served as the Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force (SHAEF).
This work is in the public domain in the United States because it is a work of the United States federal government (see 17 U.S.C. 105).
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