German services chiefs sign the surrender May 8, 1945. Above, L to R, Stumpf, appointed , the Luftwaffe Reich, Field-Marshal Wilhelm Keitel, Chief of the Supreme Command of the Wehrmacht; and Admiral Hans Georing von Friedeburg, Pf the German Navy. Below Air Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder and Marshal Zhukov sign on behalf of the Allied Expeditionary Force and the Russian High Command respectively. On Sir Arthur's right is Mr V Vyshinsky, Soviet Vice-Commissar for Foreign affairs.

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German services chiefs sign the surrender May 8, 1945. Above, L to R, Stumpf, appointed , the Luftwaffe Reich, Field-Marshal Wilhelm Keitel, Chief of the Supreme Command of the Wehrmacht; and Admiral Hans Georing von Friedeburg, Pf the German Navy. Below Air Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder and Marshal Zhukov sign on behalf of the Allied Expeditionary Force and the Russian High Command respectively. On Sir Arthur's right is Mr V Vyshinsky, Soviet Vice-Commissar for Foreign affairs.

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