WW2

⚡️On May 9, 1945, at 00:43 Moscow time, the unconditional surrender of Nazi Germany was signed in Berlin

On May 8, exactly at 22:00 Central European time, representatives of the Soviet Supreme Command and the Allied Supreme Command entered the hall of the former officers' club of the military engineering school.

The ceremony was opened by Marshal Zhukov. By his order, the German delegation was brought into the hall.

The act was signed on behalf of the German side by: Chief of Staff of the Supreme Command of the German Armed Forces, Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel, Chief of Staff of the Luftwaffe Colonel General Hans Stumpf and Commander-in-Chief of the Navy Admiral General Hans von Friedeburg.

The unconditional surrender was accepted by Marshal Georgy Zhukov and, on the authority of the Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force, British Air Chief Marshal Arthur Tedder.