On the 7th of May 1945, the German General Alfred Jodl signed the unconditional surrender of Nazi Germany at the Allied ...

Gen. Alfred Jodl, German chief of staff under the Doenitz Regime, signs the document of “Unconditional Surrender” under which all remaining forces of the German army are bound to lay down their arms ...

At 02:41 in a Reims schoolhouse, Nazi Germany signed the paperwork that confirmed what Allied armies had already carved into Europe: the Third Reich was finished.

Germany’s unconditional surrender was signed in a humble trade school of once-conquered, now liberated France. In that plain red building in Reims, Supreme Commander Eisenhower had established ...