Unconditional surrender of Germany.

Event
Mon, 05/07/1945

Hitler committed suicide on 30 April 1945 and Reichspräsident Grand Admiral Karl Dönitz, who had been President of the Third Reich for a week, travelled to General Eisenhower's HQ at Reims in France, and, in the presence of senior officers from Britain, America, Russia and France, surrendered unconditionally on 7 May 1945.

Below:
Seated, left to right: Air Chief Marshal Sir Charles Portal; Field Marshal Sir Alan Brooke, the Rt Hon Winston Churchill; Admiral Sir Andrew Cunningham. Standing, left to right: the Secretary to the Chiefs of Staffs Committee, Major General L C Hollis; and the Chief of Staff to the Minister of Defence, General Sir Hastings Ismay.

THE PRIME MINISTER, THE RT HON WINSTON CHURCHILL, WITH HIS CHIEFS OF STAFF IN THE GARDEN OF NO 10 DOWNING STREET, LONDON, 7 MAY 1945
THE PRIME MINISTER, THE RT HON WINSTON CHURCHILL, WITH HIS CHIEFS OF STAFF IN THE GARDEN OF NO 10 DOWNING STREET, LONDON, 7 MAY 1945© IWM (TR 2839)