59 STAT.] MULTILATERAL-SURRENDER BY GERMANY-MAY 7,8 ,1945 1861 3. The German High Command will at once issue to the appropriate connanders, and ensure the carrying out of any further orders issued by the Supreme Comnander, Allied Expeditionary Force and by the Supreme High Command of the Red Army. 4. This act of military surrender is without prejudice to, and will be superseded by any general instrument of surrender imposed by, or on behalf of the United Nations and applicable to GEIMANY and the German armed forces as a whole. 5. In the event of the German High Ccmnand or any of the forces under their control failing to act in accordance with this Act of Surrender, the Supreme ciomander, Allied Expeditionary Force and the Supreme High Command of the Red Army will take such punitive or other action as they deem appropriate. -2 -
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