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ON 8 MAY 1945, the commanders of the three branches of the German armed forces prepare to sign an instrument of surrender at the headquarters of the Soviet military administration in Berlin, ending hostilities in the European theatre during the Second World War. Their surrender was formally accepted by Georgy Zhukov, who represented the Red Army, and Arthur William Tedder, the deputy supreme commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force. The terms had been prepared the year before by the European Advisory Commission. They were developed further at the Yalta Conference, in February 1945.
Adolf Hitler killed himself on 30 April. His successor as president of Germany, Karl Dönitz, authorised Alfred Jodl, the chief of operations staff at the Wehrmacht high command, to negotiate terms with Dwight D Eisenhower, the supreme commander of the AEF. On Dönitz’s orders, German military commanders began sign