The fighting in Europe stopped when the Chief of Staff of the German Armed Forces High Command, Alfred Jodl, surrendered at General Dwight D. Eisenhower’s Allied headquarters in Reims on May 7 ...

The messages relay that the German high command had signed an “unconditional surrender”. The document, timestamped 8.30am on May 7, 1945, instructs Allied expeditionary forces to “cease all ...

The German Instrument of Surrender was signed ending the Second World War in front of Marshal Georgy Zhukov on behalf of the ...

The red-bricked school in the eastern city of Reims was the “center of the world” for one night, said veteran filmmaker Wenders, recalling when the German High Command first signed its ...

Paris (AFP) – Award-winning German director Wim Wenders has revisited the French school where Nazi Germany signed its initial 1945 surrender for a short film released Monday, days before Europe ...