On 7 May, in a red brick school house in the French city of Reims, General Alfred Jodl signed an instrument of surrender on behalf of the German armed forces. The following day, Field Marshall Wilhelm Keitel signed a another surrender document with Soviet Marshal Georgy Zhukov at Karlshorst in Berlin. A week earlier, on the afternoon of Friday 30 April 1945, Adolf Hitler had committed suicide in his Führerbunker underneath the wrecked city of Berlin.
This is how the Second World War came to an end. It had lasted six years, left tens of millions dead and swathes of the …read more
Source: Newsweek
