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111-SC-27266: Surrender of Germany, 7 May 1945

111-SC-27266: Surrender of Germany, 7 May 1945. Terms of Unconditional Surrender are here being dictated to the Representatives of the German government in the War Room of Supreme Headquarters, Allied Expeditionary Forces (SHAEF), at Reims, France. In the picture, backs to camera, are Major Wilhelm Oxenius, of the German General Staff; (nearest camera) Colonel General Gustaf Jodl, German Chief of Staff; General Admiral Von Friedburg, of the German Navy, facing the camera on the far side of the table, seated are (left to right) Lieutenant General Sir F. E. Morgan, Deputy Chief of Staff; General Francois Sevez, Representative of General Alphonse Juin, French Chief of Staff; Admiral Harold M. Burrough, Commander in Chief, Allied Naval Expeditionary Forces; Lieutenant General W.B. Smith, Chief of Staff, SHAEF; and Major General of Artillery Ivan Alexeyevich Susloparov, Russian Representative. Standing behind General Sevez is Captain H.C. Butcher, Naval Aide to General Eisenhower. U.S. Army Photograph. Courtesy of the Library of Congress Collection, Lot-8988. (2015/10/16).
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Caption: Surrender of Germany, 7 May 1945. Terms of Unconditional Surrender are here being dictated to the Representatives of the German government in the War Room of Supreme Headquarters, Allied Expeditionary Forces (SHAEF), at Reims, France. In the picture, backs to camera, are Major Wilhelm Oxenius, of the German General Staff; (nearest camera) Colonel General Gustaf Jodl, German Chief of Staff; General Admiral Von Friedburg, of the German Navy, facing the camera on the far side of the table, seated are (left to right) Lieutenant General Sir F. E. Morgan, Deputy Chief of Staff; General Francois Sevez, Representative of General Alphonse Juin, French Chief of Staff; Admiral Harold M. Burrough, Commander in Chief, Allied Naval Expeditionary Forces; Lieutenant General W.B. Smith, Chief of Staff, SHAEF; and Major General of Artillery Ivan Alexeyevich Susloparov, Russian Representative. Standing behind General Sevez is Captain H.C. Butcher, Naval Aide to General Eisenhower. U.S. Army Photograph. Courtesy of the Library of Congress Collection, Lot-8988. (2015/10/16).
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