He wrote a letter on 6 May — two days before German Instrument of Surrender — formally dismissing Himmler from all his posts.

Germany surrendered effective 8 May 1945 with the German Instrument of Surrender, ending the European theater of World War II.

** The German Instrument of Surrender signed ( May 7 – 8, 1945 ).

The Surrender Museum is the building in which on 7 May 1945, General Eisenhower and the Allies received the unconditional surrender of the German Wehrmacht.

Upon the German Instrument of Surrender in May 1945, Yugoslav Partisans entered the region, killing numerous alleged collaborators in what became known as the Bleiburg tragedy.

* German Instrument of Surrender ( 1945 )

The German Instrument of Surrender was delivered on 8 May to General Franz Böhme, the commander of all German forces stationed in Norway, and the 1st Airborne Division landed near Oslo and Stavanger between 9 May and 11 May.

Upon the German Instrument of Surrender and the nearby Battle of Poljana on 14 / 15 May 1945, the whole area was controlled by the Partisans.

Berlin surrendered on the night of May 2 – 3, the German Instrument of Surrender was signed on May 7.

Arthur Tedder ( centre ) at the ceremony of the German Instrument of Surrender, 1945 | German unconditional surrender ( May 1945 ).

After World War II, the German Instrument of Surrender and the country's division into four Allied occupation zones, the elections were held in the Federal Republic of Germany, established under occupation statute in the three Western zones with the proclamation of its Basic Law by the Parlamentarischer Rat assembly of the West German states on 23 May 1949.

The German Instrument of Surrender () was the legal instrument that established the armistice ending World War II in Europe.

At the time agreed for all German armed forces to end hostilities ( see the German Instrument of Surrender, 1945 ), the Sixteenth and Eighteenth armies of Army Group Courland, commanded by General ( of Infantry ) Carl Hilpert, ended hostilities at 23: 00 on 8 May 1945 surrendering to Leonid Govorov commander of the Leningrad Front.

Upon the 1945 German Instrument of Surrender and the Allied occupation of Austria, the training ground was seized by the Soviet Army and, despite raised claims for restitution, remained a military exclusion zone ( renamed Truppenübungsplatz Allentsteig ) operated by the Austrian Armed Forces up to today, while since 1981 the main square with the ruins of the Romanesque Saints Peter and Paul parish church and the surrounding graveyard can be visited.

The Reichspost finally ceased to function with the German Instrument of Surrender on May 8.

However, the signing of the Surrender Act with the Czech National Council by their commander, General Toussaint, may be considered only a partial victory, as only a minor part of German forces passed westward.

As the people welcomed Soviet tanks, the last German units were leaving the city under the Surrender Act terms.

When the German Instrument of Surrender actually entered into force in the West ( May 8, 1945 at 23: 01 CET ) a similar but entirely separate document had not been signed with the Soviet Union, and it was not signed until the following day.

* Documents of the Arian Controversy ( 2007, German and original languages only, Berlin and New York: Walter De Gruyter, 2007 )

Relations further deteriorated when, in January 1948, the U. S. State Department also published a collection of documents titled Nazi-Soviet Relations, 1939 – 1941: Documents from the Archives of The German Foreign Office, which contained documents recovered from the Foreign Office of Nazi Germany revealing Soviet conversations with Germany regarding the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, including its secret protocol dividing eastern Europe, the 1939 German-Soviet Commercial Agreement, and discussions of the Soviet Union potentially becoming the fourth Axis Power.

Falsifiers was published in response to the documents made public in Nazi-Soviet Relations, 1939 – 1941: Documents from the Archives of The German Foreign Office, which included the secret protocols of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact and other secret German-Soviet relations documents.

The West German Ministerpräsidenten debating the Frankfurt Documents in Koblenz

As an immediate consequence of the London conference 1948 the representatives of the three western occupations powers on the 1st of July convoked the Ministerpräsidenten ( prime ministers ) of the West German Länder in Frankfurt / Main and committed to them the socalled Frankfurt Documents ( Frankfurter Dokumente ).

Documents discovered by the German historian Fritz Fischer have suggested that in the event of a German victory, one policy under discussion by the German government as part of its Septemberprogramm was to annex a strip of Poland, and replace the population with Germans to set up a defensive barrier in the east.

: Der Völkermord an den Armeniern 1915 / 15: Dokumente aus dem Politischen Archiv des Auswärtigen Amts ( The Armenian genocide of 1915: Documents from the political archives of the foreign office ), preface by Vahakn N. Dadrian, in German with English abstracts of documents ; ISBN 3-934920-59-4, published by zu Klampen Verlag, Spring 2005

* The Conference Room at the " Wolf's Lair " after the Assassination Attempt ( July 20, 1944 ) from German History in Documents and Images a project of the German Historical Institute

* Telex Message by the Conspiratorial Stauffenberg Group to the holders of executive Power ( July 20, 1944 ) from German History in Documents and Images a project of the German Historical Institute

* Original Documents from Room 40: LUSITANIA case ; Naval Battle of Jutland / Skagerrak ; The Zimmermann / Mexico Telegram ; German Submarine Warfare and Room 40 Intelligence in general ; PhotoCopies from The National Archives, Kew, Richmond, UK.

* Documents of German History, New Brunswick, New Jersey, Rutgers University Press, 1958.

Documents the soldiers on both sides who guarded the inner German border during the Cold War.

* Documents and medals issued ( in German )

Documents on which Karlsch's book is based shed light on the motivations of the German scientists working on the paths of nuclear reactors and isotope separation ; the historian of science Mark Walker also published his analysis in 2005.

* United States Department of State, Publication No. 6312, Documents on German Foreign Policy 1918 – 1945, Series D, IX, 671 – 676.

After the Second World War, he was the British editor-in-chief of the German Foreign Ministry's archives and oversaw the early publications of the German Documents on Foreign Affairs from 1946-1948.

* Kautsky, Karl ( editor ): Outbreak of the World War: German Documents, Oxford University Press, UK, 1924, ASIN B0018OKJVC

In 1918 he was responsible for transfer of many tsarist and White Russian documents to the Entente, including many proofs of German support for Lenin and his Bolsheviks ( so-called Sisson Documents ).

German scientists in WWII experimented with swept wings.

The film is full of deliberate anachronisms, from the Count Basie Orchestra playing " April in Paris " in the Wild West, to Slim Pickens referring to the Wide World of Sports, to the German Heer of WWII.

* Sale, Tony, The Colossus Computer 1943 – 1996: How It Helped to Break the German Lorenz Cipher in WWII ( M .& M.

Born in Germany before WWII of a German mother and an American father, Christopher joins the CIA after the war and becomes one of its most effective spies.

Some Jewish personnel avoided flying over German lines during WWII with ID tags that indicated their religion, and some Jewish personnel avoid the religious designation today out of concern that they could be captured by extremists who are anti-semitic.

*" Evaluation of the WWII German ID tag system "-Article on the weak points of WWII era German ID tags based on observations made during the recovery of missing soldiers.

After the German invasion of Poland that marked the start of WWII in Europe, the Soviet Union invaded and annexed eastern parts of the Second Polish Republic.

British and American WWII troops more often used the term " Jerry " or " Kraut " for their German opponents.

Turing's information unit, the ban, was used in the Ultra project, breaking the German Enigma machine code and hastening the end of WWII in Europe.

Krupp received its first order for 135 Panzer I tanks in 1933, and during WWII made tanks, artillery, naval guns, armor plate, munitions and other armaments for the German military.

* 1913 – Werner Mölders, German WWII fighter pilot ( d. 1941 )

The fourth G-series nerve agent, Cyclosarin, although discovered by German scientists studying organophosphates during WWII was seemingly not found by the Allies, but independently rediscovered in 1949.

The event invites WWII allied veterans to help celebrate their participation in the liberation of the Netherlands from German occupation.

* 1976 – Walter Warlimont, German General WWII ( b. 1894 )

Border checkpoint during the later part of WWII asserting San Marino's neutrality in Italian, German and French

* September 15 – WWII: Diverse elements of the German Wehrmacht surround Warsaw and demand its surrender.

* November 1 – 2 – WWII: Physicist Hans Ferdinand Mayer writes the Oslo Report on German weapons systems and passes it to the British Secret Intelligence Service.

* December 13 – WWII – Battle of the River Plate: The German pocket battleship, Admiral Graf Spee is trapped by cruisers HMS Ajax, HMNZS Achilles, and HMS Exeter after a running battle off the coast of Uruguay.

* January 29 – WWII: HMS Spartan ( 95 ) is sunk by a Henschel Hs 293 from a German aircraft off Anzio, western Italy.

* March 19 – WWII: German forces occupy Hungary in Operation Margarethe.

* May 9 – WWII: In the Ukrainian city of Sevastopol, Soviet troops completely drive out German forces, who had been ordered by Hitler to “ fight to the last man .”

** Operation Bagration: A general attack by Soviet forces clears the German forces from Belarus, resulting in the destruction of German Army Group Centre, possibly the greatest defeat of the Wehrmacht during WWII.