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    80 anni fa oggi, la Germania ha firmato una resa incondizionata a Reims, in Francia

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    1. MonsieurA on

      As an [article in The Guardian recounts](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/06/you-feel-the-huge-weight-of-history-the-room-where-nazi-germany-surrendered):

      >It was not until 2.41 on the morning of 7 May that the document was finally signed at the long table in the brightly lit war room, its walls hung with huge charts of battlefield and air operations, railways, supply depots and prisoners taken.

      >Eisenhower’s chief of staff, Gen Walter Bedell Smith, signed for the western allies, followed by Gen Ivan Susloparov for the Soviet forces, and Jodl for Germany. Maj Gen François Sevez, representing France, signed as a witness, since the surrender was on French soil.

      >Seventeen members of the press had been bussed in from Paris for the occasion. “The scene seemed to freeze,” the Associated Press correspondent Relman Morin, who died in 1973, would write later. “It had the character of a picture, somehow, a queer unreality. Here was the end of nearly five years of war, of blood and death, of explosions and bullets whining and the wailing of air raid sirens. Here, brought into this room, was the end of all that.”

      >With Jodl’s signature on the act of surrender, Morin said, he was “signing away the German army, and the Luftwaffe, and the submarines”. With one scratch of the general’s pen, “the state that was to have lasted a thousand years, died.”

      >Because Eisenhower outranked Jodl, he was not present for the signing, but he received the German delegation in his office upstairs. Minutes later, he dispatched a simple message: “The mission of this allied force was fulfilled at 0241, local time, May 7th, 1945.”

      >There were no immediate celebrations. The ceasefire was set for 11.01pm on 8 May, and the correspondents present were sworn not to report the surrender until further notice. A few hours later, however, German radio did – and the news was out.

      >“Stalin refused to acknowledge the surrender and said Susloparov was not authorised to sign it,” said Bénédicte Hernu, the director of Reims’s historical museums. “He insisted on another, grander surrender in Berlin that would highlight the Soviet role.”

      I also posted this on /r/80yearsago, for those who want to follow what happened next.

    2. PomegranateSoft1598 on

      Why do they look like modern people cosplaying as WW2 soldiers though

    4. Maeglin75 on

      And today there are people in Germany (called “Reichsbürger”) that claim that this never happened, WW2 never officially ended, the German Reich still exists today and the Federal Republic of Germany isn’t legitimate.

    6. MeLoNarXo on

      Would have been incredibly funny if we signed it in the same train cart as the ww1 surrender but unfortunately the nazis destroyed it for that exact reason

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