Wilhelm Keitel signs the act of unconditional surrender

Dec 6, 2015 #Red Army, #Wehrmacht

Wilhelm Keitel

 

Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel signs the act of unconditional surrender of Nazi Germany. Berlin, May 8, 1945, 22:43 Central European Time (9 May at 0:43 Moscow time).
Field Marshal Keitel (22 September 1882 Helmsherode, Duchy of Braunschweig (today Lower Saxony) – October 16, 1946, Nuremberg, Bavaria) – the German military leader, chief of staff of the Supreme Command of the Wehrmacht (German armed forces) – OKW (1938-1945), Field Marshal (1940).

Wilhelm Keitel signed the act of capitulation of Nazi Germany, who completed the Great Patriotic War of the Soviet Union and World War II in Europe.

 

 

Place: Berlin, Third Reich
Shooting time: May 8, 1945
Author: Moore

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