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- THE GERMAN SURRENDER DOCUMENTS - WWII:
-
-
- Instrument of Surrender
- of
- All German armed forces in HOLLAND, in
- northwest Germany including all islands,
- and in DENMARK.
-
-
- 1. The German Command agrees to the surrender of all armed
- forces in HOLLAND, in northwest GERMANY including the
- FRISLIAN ISLANDS and HELIGOLAND and all islands, in
- SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN, and in DENMARK, to the C.-in-C. 21
- Army Group.
-
- =This to include all naval ships in these areas=
-
- These forces to lay down their arms and to surrender
- unconditionally.
-
-
- 2. All hostilities on land, on sea, or in the air by German
- forces in the above areas to cease at 0800 hrs. British
- Double Summer Time on Saturday 5 May 1945.
-
-
- 3. The German command to carry out at once, and without
- argument or comment, all further orders that will be issued
- by the Allied Powers on any subject.
-
-
- 4. Disobedience of orders, or failure to comply with them, will
- be regarded as a breach of these surrender terms and will be
- dealt with by the Allied Powers in accordance with the laws
- and usages of war.
-
-
- 5. This insturment of surrender is independent of, without pre-
- judice to, and will be superseded by any general instrument
- of surrender imposed by or on behalf of the Allied Powers
- and applicable to Germany and the German armed forces as a
- whole.
-
-
- 6. This instument of surrender is written in English and in German.
-
- The English version is the authentic text.
-
-
- 7. The decision of the Allied Powers will be final if any doubt
- or dispute arise as to the meaning or intrepretation of the
- surrender terms.
-
-
- =HANS GEORG von FRIEDBERG=
-
- =KINZEL=
-
- =G. WAGNER=
- =B. L. MONTGOMERY=
- =Field - Marshal= =POLECK=
-
- =FRIEDEL=
- =4 May 1945=
-
- =1830 hrs.=
- ---------------------------------------
-
- {Reichspresident Donitz's authorization to Colonel General Jodl}
- {to conclude a general surrender:}
-
-
- Hauptquartier, den 6. Mai 1945
-
-
-
-
- Ich bevollmachtige Generaloberst J o d l ,
-
- Chef des Wehrmachtfuhrungsstabes in Oberkommando
-
- der Wehrmact, zum Abschluss eines Waffenstill-
-
- standsbkommens mit dem Hauptquartier des Generals
-
- E i s e n h o w e r .
-
-
- [ SEAL ] =DONITZ=
-
- GroBadmiral.
- ---------------------------------------
-
- Only this text in English is authoritative
-
-
-
- ACT OF MILITARY SURRENDER
-
-
-
- 1. We the undersigned, acting by authority
-
- of the German High Command, hereby surrender
-
- unconditionally to the Supreme Commander, Allied
-
- Expeditionary Forces and simultaneously to the
-
- Soviet High Command all forces on land, sea and in
-
- the air who are at this date under German control.
-
- 2. The German High Command will at once
-
- issue orders to all German military, naval and
-
- air authorties and to all forces under German
-
- control to cease active operations at =2301= hours
-
- Central European time on = 8 May = and to
-
- remain in the positions occupied at that time. No
-
- ship, vessel, or aircraft is to be scuttled, or any
-
- damage done to their hull, machinery or equipment.
-
- 3. The German High Command will at once
-
- issue to the appropriate commander, and ensure
-
- the carrying out of any further orders issued by
-
- the Supreme Commander, Allied Expeditionary Force
-
- and by the Soviet High Command.
-
- 4. This act of military surrender is without
-
- prejudice to, and will be superseded by any
-
- general instrument of surrender imposed by, or
-
- on behalf of the United Nations and applicable
-
- to GERMANY and the German armed forces as a whole.
-
- 5. In the event of the German High Command
-
- or any of the forces under their control failing
-
- to act in accordance with this Act of Surrender,
-
- the Supreme Commander, Allied Expeditionary Force
-
- and the Soviet High Command will take such punitive
-
- or other action as they deem appropriate.
-
-
-
-
- Signed at =RHEIMS at 0241= on the =7th= day of May, 1945.
- =France=
-
-
- On behalf of the German High Command.
-
-
- =JODL=
-
-
- IN THE PRESENCE OF
-
-
- On behalf of the Supreme Commander, On behalf of the Soviet
- Allied Expeditionary Force. High Command
-
- =W. B. SMITH= =SOUSLOPAROV=
-
-
- =F SEVEZ=
- Major General, French Army
- (Witness)
- ---------------------------------------
-
- SUPREME HEADQUARTERS
- ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY FORCE
-
-
- SERIAL 1
-
- ORDERS BY THE SUPREME COMMANDER,
-
- ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY FORCE RELATING TO
-
- ARMY AND AIR FORCES UNDER GERMAN CONTROL
-
-
-
- 1. Local commanders of the Army and Air Force
-
- under German control on the Western Front, in
-
- NORWAY and in the CHANNEL ISLANDS will hold themselves
-
- in readiness to receive detailed orders for the
-
- surrender of their forces from the Supreme Commander's
-
- subordinate commanders opposite their front.
-
- 2. In the case of NORWAY the Supreme
-
- Commander's representatives will be the General
-
- Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Scottish Command and
-
- Air Officer Commanding 13 Group RAF.
-
- 3. In the case of the CHANNEL ISLANDS the
-
- Supreme Commander's representatives will be the
-
- General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Southern
-
- Command and Air Officer Commanding 10 Group RAF.
-
-
-
-
- =WALTER B SMITH=
- Signed....................
- For the Supreme Commander, RAF
-
-
- Dated =0241 7th= May, 1945
- =Rheims France=
-
- ---------------------------------------
-
- SPECIAL ORDERS BY THE SUPREME COMMANDER, ALLIED
-
- EXPEDITIONARY FORCE TO THE GERMAN HIGH COMMAND
-
- RELATING TO NAVAL FORCES
-
-
-
- For the purpose of these orders the term "Allied
- Representatives" shall be deemed to include the
- Supreme Commander, Allied Expeditionary Force,
- and any subordinate commander, staff officer or
- agent acting pursuant to his orders.
-
-
-
- SPECIAL ORDERS BY THE SUPREME COMMANDER, ALLIED
-
- EXPEDITIONARY FORCE TO THE GERMAN HIGH COMMAND
-
- RELATING TO NAVAL FORCES
-
- PART I GENERAL
-
-
- Definition of Naval Forces
-
- 1. For the purpose of these orders all formations,
-
- units, and personnel of the German Navy together with the
-
- Marine Kusten Polizie shall be refered to as the German
-
- Naval Forces.
-
- 2. Members of the Marine Kusten Polizie will
-
- immediately be placed under the command of the appropriate
-
- German Naval Commanders who will be responsible for their
-
- maintenance and supply where applicable, to the same
-
- extent and degree as for units of the German Navy.
-
- German Naval Representatives and information required
-
- immediately
-
- 3. The German High Command will dispatch within
-
- 48 hours after the surrender becomes effective, a res-
-
- ponsible Flag Officer to the Allied Naval Commander,
-
- Expeditionary Force at his headquarters. This
-
- Flag Officer will furnish the Allied Naval Commander,
-
- Expeditionary Force, with:-
-
- a. Corrected copies of charts showing all
-
- minefields in Western Europe waters, including the
-
- BALTIC as far as LUBECK (inclusive) which have been laid
-
- by German and German-controlled vessels or aircraft,
-
- positions of all wrecks, booms and other underwater
-
- obstructions in this area, details of the German convoy
-
- routes and searched channels and of all bouys, lights
-
- and other navigational aids in this area. The appropriate
-
- navigational publications are also required.
-
- b. Details of the exact location of all
-
- departments and branches of the German Admiralty (OKM).
-
- c. All available information concerning
-
- the numbers and types of German minesweepers and sperr-
-
- brechers in German controlled Dutch ports and German
-
- NORTH SEA ports that can be obtained without delaying
-
- his departure. This German Flag Officer is to be
-
- accompanied by a Communications Officer who is familiar
-
- with the German Naval W/T organization and who is to
-
- bring with him the current naval communications Orders,
-
- including allocation of frequencies, list of W/T and
-
- R/T call signs in force, and a list of all codes and
-
- cyphers in use, and intended to be brought into use.
-
- d. Location of all surface warships down
-
- to and including "Elbing" class Torpedo Boats, and of
-
- all submarines and "E" Boats.
-
- 4. The German High Command will also dispatch
-
- within 48 hours after the surrender becomes effective
-
- a responsibile officer, not below the rank of Captain,
-
- by coastal craft to report to the Admiral Commanding
-
- at DOVER for onward routing to Commander-in-Chief,
-
- THE NORE, with:-
-
- a. Corrected copies of charts showing all
-
- minefields in the NORTH SEA SOUTH of 54 30' NORTH and
-
- EAST of 1 30' EAST laid by German and German-controlled
-
- vessels or aircraft, positions of all wrecks, booms and
-
- all other underwater obstructions; details of all
-
- German Convoy routes and searched channels in this area,
-
- and of all bouys, lights and other navigational aids
-
- which are under German control. Appropriate naviga-
-
- tional publications are also required.
-
- b. All available information concerning
-
- the numbers and types of German minesweepers and
-
- sperrbrechers in German contolled Dutch ports and
-
- German NORTH SEA ports that can be obtained without
-
- delaying his departure.
-
- 5. Another responsible German Naval Officer,
-
- with similar information is to be dispatched by un-
-
- escorted aircraft painted white to MANSTON Areodrome
-
- position 51 20' NORTH, 1 20' EAST for onward routing
-
- to Commander-in-Chief, THE NORE.
-
- 6. The German High Command will issue instruc-
-
- tions to certain German naval commands as indicated
-
- below:-
-
- a. The Naval Commander-in-Chief, NORTH
-
- SEA will dispatch by coastal craft within 48 hours
-
- after the surrender becomes effective a responsible
-
- officer, not below the rank of Captain, to the
-
- Admiral Commanding at DOVER for onward routing to
-
- Commander-in-Chief, THE NORE, with:-
-
- (1) details of minesweeping operations
-
- carried out in the German convoy route
-
- between the HOOK OF HOLLAND and
-
- HAMBURG and in approaches to harbours
-
- between these two ports during the
-
- previous 60 days;
-
- (2) numbers and postions of all
-
- British mines swept during these
-
- operations;
-
- (3) details of all controlled mine-
-
- fields in this area and information
-
- whether they have been rendered
-
- ineffective;
-
- (4) details of all other mining and
-
- types of mines employed in the harbours
-
- and harbour approaches of CUXHAVEN,
-
- EMDEN, TERSCHELLING, TEXEL, IJMUIDEN,
-
- AMSTERDAM, SCHEVENINGEN, HOOK OF
-
- HOLLAND and ROTTERDAM;
-
- (5) berthing facilities in the harbours
-
- enumerated in paragraph (6a). (4) above
-
- and the numbers of auxiliary minesweepers
-
- which can be accomodated;
-
- (6) a list of all W/T and R/T call signs
-
- in use by the German Navy.
-
- Any of the above information which cannot be obtained without
-
- delaying the departure of this officer will be forwarded
-
- subsequently as soon as it is available.
-
- b. The Naval Commander-in-Chief, NORTH SEA, will
-
- also dispatch as soon as possible by coastal craft to DOVER
-
- thirteen German Naval Officers who must be familiar with the
-
- German swept channels between the HOOK OF HOLLAND and
-
- CUXHAVEN. These officers will bring with them all the charts
-
- and books required for naviagation in this area and will be
-
- accompanied by pilots (and interpreters if necessary).
-
- c. The Naval Commander-in-Chief, NORWAY, will
-
- dispatch by sea within 48 hours after the surrender becomes
-
- effective, a responsible officer, not below the rank of
-
- Captain to the Commander-in-Chief, ROSYTH, with corrected copies
-
- of charts showing all German minefields in the NORTH SEA, NORTH
-
- of 56 NORTH, all wrecks, booms and other underwater
-
- obstructions, details of German convoy routes and searched
-
- channels in this area, of the approach channels to the principal
-
- Norwegian ports and of all bouys, lights and other navigational
-
- aids in this area. This officer will also bring with him the
-
- disposition of all "U" Boats and details of all orders affecting
-
- their future movements. He will be accompanied by six German
-
- Naval Officers with pilots (and interpreters if necessary) who
-
- are familiar with the coastal swept channels between OSLO and
-
- TROMSO. These officers will bring with them all the charts
-
- and books required for navigation in Norwegian waters, and a
-
- list of all W/T and R/T call signs in use by the German Navy.
-
- d. The Naval Commander-in-Chief, NORWAY, will
-
- dispatch a duplicate party to the above with similar informa-
-
- tion by an unescorted aircraft painted white to DREM Airfield
-
- 56 02' NORTH 02 48' WEST.
-
- e. The Naval Commander-in-Chief, NORWAY, will
-
- report by W/T to the Commander-in-Chief, ROSYTH, within 48 hours
-
- after the surrender becomes effective, the following information:-
-
- (1) Berthing facilities at OSLO,
-
- CHRISTIANSAND, STAVANGER, BERGEN, TRONDHEIM,
-
- NARVIK, and TROMSO.
-
- (2) The appropriate quantities of furnace
-
- oil fuel, diesel oil fuel, and coal at all the
-
- principal Norwegian ports between OSLO and
-
- TROMSO.
-
- 7. The German Admiral SKGGERAK will dispatch by sea
-
- within 48 hours after the surrender becomes effective, a
-
- responsible officer not below the rank of Captain, to the
-
- Commander-in-Chief, ROSYTH, with corrected copies of charts
-
- showing all German minefields, wrecks, booms, and other underwater
-
- obstructions, details of German convoy routes and searched
-
- channels, bouys, lights and other navigational aids in the
-
- SKAGGERAK, KATTEGAT, THE BEITS AND SOUND, KIEL
-
- BAY and BALTIC WATERS WEST of 14 EAST. This
-
- officer will also bring with him the disposition
-
- of all "U" boats in the above area and details
-
- of all orders affecting their future move-
-
- ments. He will be accompanied by three German Naval
-
- officers with pilots (and interpreters if necessary)
-
- who are familiar with the coastal swept channels, and
-
- channels in the Swedish territorial waters, in the waters
-
- referred to above. These officers will bring with
-
- them all the charts and books required for navigation
-
- in these waters, and a list of all W/T and R/T call
-
- signs in use by the German Navy.
-
- The German Admiral SKAGGERAK will dispatch
-
- a duplicate party to that specified above, with similar
-
- information, by air in unescorted aircraft painted
-
- white to DREM Airfield 56 02' NORTH 02 48' WEST.
-
- 8. The German Naval Officers who will be dis-
-
- patched to DOVER and ROSYTH by sea will proceed to
-
- positions in latitude 51 19' NORTH longitude 1 43' EAST
-
- and latitude 56 47' NORTH longitude 1 13' WEST respectively,
-
- where they will be met by British warships and escorted
-
- to their destination. The ships or craft in which they
-
- travel are to fly a large white flag at the masthead by
-
- day and are to illuminate these white flags by night.
-
- These ships are to broadcast their positions hourly by
-
- W/T on 500 ks. (600 meters) whilst on passage.
-
- Information required within fourteen days
-
- 9. The German High Command will furnish the
-
- following information to the Allied Naval Commander,
-
- Expeditionary Force, at by
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- within fourteen days of cessation of hostilities.
-
- a. Locations of all warships, auxiliaries and armed
-
- coastal craft operating under the orders of the German Naval
-
- Command stating particulars of the operational unit to which they
-
- are attached, giving approximate totals of all naval personal
-
- embarked in each vessel, (including naval flak and merchant ship
-
- flak).
-
- b. A statement of the organizations of all naval
-
- shore Commands, giving location of all naval establishments,
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- including establishments for experiment and research, names of
-
- all Commanding Officers and Principal Staff Officers of the rank
-
- of Commander in each establishment.
-
- c. A statement of the strength and location of all
-
- naval land forces including naval infrantry, naval flak, merchant
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- ship flak and naval personnel manning naval coast artillery and
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- full particulars of all Coastal and port defenses giving nature
-
- and locations.
-
- d. Lists of stocks of furnace oil fuels, diesel oil
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- fuel, petrol, and coal of 500 tons or more at, or in the vicinity
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- of, all ports between IJMUIDEN and HAMBURG inclusive.
-
- e. A statement of location of the principal naval
-
- armament depots with approximate overall stocks of each major
-
- item held.
-
- f. The following communications information:-
-
- (1) location and details concerning all
-
- V/S, W/T (including D/F) and radar
-
- stations in use by, and under constuc-
-
- tion for the German Navy, these details
-
- to include types and capabilities of all
-
- equipment fitted.
-
- (2) details of the current naval W/T
-
- organization, lists of W/T and R/T call
-
- signs in force, and allocation of all
-
- frequencies for communication and radar
-
- purposes.
-
- (3) location and details of all naval
-
- communications (including Infra-Red)
-
- and naval radar training and research
-
- establishments.
-
- g. Full details of all German minefields in
-
- the NORTH SEA, SKAGGERAK, KATTEGAT, BEITS, and SOUND.
-
- h. Full details of the German naval minesweeping
-
- organization including the communications organization.
-
- j. Full details of the communications (including
-
- Infra-Red) and radar equipment fitted in all German minesweepers
-
- and sperrbrechers.
-
- k. Technical details of all types of minesweeping
-
- gear used by the German Navy.
-
- l. Details of all mining and types of mines employed
-
- and of berthing facilities available for ships of 150 feet in
-
- length and 16 feet draught at:-
-
- BREMERHAVEN
-
- WILHELMSHAVEN
-
- SCHIERMONNIKOOG
-
- DELFZIJL
-
- 10. The German High Command will also furnish the Allied
-
- Naval Commander, Expeditionary Force, with two copies of all
-
- coding and cyphering systems which have been, are being, or were
-
- to be used by the German Navy with the necessary instructions for
-
- their use and the dates between which they have been, or were to
-
- have been used.
-
-
-
- PART II - CONTROL AND DISARMAMENT
-
- Orders to warships, auxiliaries, merchant ships and other craft
-
-
- 11. The German High Command will forthwith direct all
-
- German and German-controlled warships, auxiliaries,
-
- merchant ships and other craft to comply with the following
-
- instructions:-
-
- a. All warships, auxiliaries, merchant ships and
-
- other craft in harbours are to remain in harbour pending
-
- further directions from the Allied Representatives.
-
- b. All warships, auxiliaries, merchant ships
-
- and other craft at sea are to report their positions in plain
-
- language immediately to the nearest British, US or Soviet Coast
-
- Wireless Telegraphy station on 500 kc/s (600 metres), and are to
-
- proceed to the nearest German or Allied port or such ports as
-
- the Allied Representatives may direct, and remain there pending
-
- further directions from the Allied Representatives. At night
-
- they are to show lights and to display searchlights with beams
-
- held vertically.
-
- c. All warships and merchant ships whether in port
-
- or at sea will immediately train all weapons fore and aft. All
-
- torpedo tubes will be unloaded and breech blocks will be removed
-
- from all guns.
-
- d. All warships and merchant ships in German or
-
- German-controlled harbours will immediately land and store in
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- safety all ammunition, warheads and other explosives. They
-
- will land all portable weapons but, pending further instuctions,
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- warships will retain onboard the fixed armament. Fire control
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- and all other equipment will be maintained on board intact and
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- fully efficient.
-
- e. All minesweeping vessels are to carry out the
-
- means of disarmament prescribed in c. and d. above,
-
- (except that they will however, retain on board such portable
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- weapons and explosives as are required for minesweeping
-
- purposes) and are to be prepared immediately for minesweeping
-
- service under the direction of the Allied Representatives.
-
- They will complete with fuel where necessary.
-
- f. All German salvage vessels are to carry out
-
- the measures of disarmament prescribed in c. and d. above
-
- (except that they will retain on board such explosives as are
-
- required for salvage purposes.) These vessels, together with
-
- all salvage equipment and personnel, are to be prepared for
-
- immediate salvage operations under the direction of the Allied
-
- Representatives, completing with fuel where necessary for this
-
- purpose.
-
- g. The movement of transport on the inland waterways
-
- of GERMANY may continue, subject to orders from the Allied
-
- Representatives. No vessels moving on inland waterways will
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- proceed to neutral waters.
-
- Submarines
-
- 12. The German High Command will tranmit by W/T on
-
- appropriate frequencies the two messages in Annexures 'A' and
-
- 'B' which contain instructions to submarines at sea.
-
- Naval Aircraft
-
- 13. The German High Command will forthwith direct that:-
-
- a. German naval aircraft are not to leave the
-
- ground or water or ship pending directions from the Allied
-
- Representatives;
-
- b. naval aircraft in the air are to return
-
- immediately to their bases.
-
- Neutral shipping
-
- 14. The German High Command will forthwith direct
-
- that all neutral merchant ships in German and German-
-
- controlled ports are to be detained pending further
-
- directions from the Allied Representatives.
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- Orders relating to sabotage, scuttling, safety measures,
-
- pilotage and personnel
-
- 15. The German High Command will forthwith issue
-
- categorical directions that:-
-
- a. No ship, vessel or aircraft of any
-
- description is to be scuttled, or any damage done
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- to their hull, machinery or equipment.
-
- b. all harbour works and port facilities
-
- of whatever nature, including telecommunications and
-
- radar stations, are to be preserved and kept free from
-
- destruction or damage pending further directions from the
-
- Allied Representatives, and all necessary steps taken and
-
- all necessary orders issued to prohibit any act of
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- scuttling, sabotage, or other willful damage.
-
-
- c. all boom defenses at all ports and
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- harbours are to be opened and kept open at all times;
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- where possible, they are to be removed.
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- d. all controlled minefields at all ports
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- and harbours are to be disconnected and rendered
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- ineffective.
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- e. all demolition charges in all ports
-
- and harbour works are to be removed or rendered
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- ineffective and their presence indicated.
-
- f. the existing wartime sustem of navigational
-
- lighting is to be maintained, except that all dimmed lights
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- are to be shown at full brilliancy, and lights only shown
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- by special arrangement are to be exhibited continously.
-
- In particular:-
-
- (1) HELIGOLAND Light is to be burnt
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- at full brilliancy.
-
- (2) The bouyage of the coastal convoy
-
- route from the HOOK OF HOLLAND to
-
- HAMBURG is to be commenced, mid-channel
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- light bouys being laid six miles apart.
-
- (3) Two ships are to be anchored as
-
- mark vessels in the following positions:-
-
- 54 20' N, 5 00' E.
- 54 20' N, 6 30' E.
-
- Thse ships are to fly a large black flag at the mast-
-
- head by day and by night are to flash a searchlight
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- vertically every 30 seconds.
-
- g. All pilotage services are to continue
-
- to operate and all pilots are to be held at their normal
-
- stations ready for service and equipped with their charts.
-
- h. German Naval and other personnel concerned
-
- in the operation of ports and administrative services in
-
- ports are to remain at their stations and to continue to
-
- carry out their normal duties.
-
- Personnel
-
- 16. The German High Command will forthwith direct
-
- that except as may be required for the purpose of giving
-
- effect to the above special orders:-
-
- a. all personnel in German warships,
-
- auxiliaries, merchant ships and other craft, are to remain
-
- on board their ships pending further directions from the
-
- Allied Representatives.
-
- b. all Naval personnel ashore are to remain
-
- in their establishments.
-
- 17. The German High Command will be responsible for
-
- the immediate and total disarmament of all naval personnel
-
- on shore. The orders issued to the German High Command in
-
- respect of the disarmament and war material of land forces
-
- will apply also to naval personnel on shore.
-
-
-
- =H. M. BURROUGH=
- Signed.......................
- For the Supreme Commander, AEF.
-
-
- =Dated 0241 7th May 1945=
- =Rheims, France=
-
-
-
- ANNEXURE 'A'
-
-
- SURRENDER OF GERMAN "U" BOAT FLEET
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- To all "U" Boats at sea:
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- Carry out the following instuctions forthwith which
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- have been given by the Allied Representatives
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- (A) Surface immediately and remain surfaced.
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- (B) Report immediately in P/L your position in
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- latitude and longitude and number of your "U" Boat
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- to nearest British, US, Canadian or Soviet coast W/T
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- station on 500 kc/s (600 metres) and to call sign GZZ 10
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- on one of the following high frequencies: 16845 - 12685
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- or 5970 kc/s.
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- (C) Fly a large black or blue flag by day.
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- (D) Burn navigation lights by night.
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- (E) Jettison all ammunition, remove breachblocks from
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- guns and render torpedos safe by removing pistols.
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- All mines are to be rendered safe.
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- (F) Make all signals in P/L.
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- (G) Follow strictly the instructions for proceeding
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- to Allied ports from your present area given in
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- immediately following message.
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- (H) Observe strictly the orders of Allied Representatives
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- to refrain from scuttling or in any way damaging your
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- "U" Boat.
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- 2. These instructions will be repeated at two-hour
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- intervals until further notice.
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- ANNEXURE 'B'
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- To all "U" Boats at sea. Observe strictly the
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- instructions already given to remain fully surfaced.
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- Report your position course and speed every 8 hours.
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- Obey any instructions that may be given to you by any
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- Allied authority.
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- The following are the areas and routes for "U" Boats
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- surrendering-
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- (1) Area 'A'.
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- a. Bound on West by meridian 026 degs West and South by
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- parallel 043 degs North in Barents Sea by meridian 020 degs
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- East in Baltic Approaches by line joining the Naze and Hantsholm
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- but excludes Irish Sea between 051 degs thirty mins and 055 degs
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- 00 mins North and English Channel between line of Lands End
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- Scilly Islands Ushant and line of Dover-Calais.
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- b. Join one of following routes at nearest point and
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- procceed along it to Loch Eriboll (058 degs 33 minutes North
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- 004 degs 37 mins West)
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- Blue route: All positions North and West unless otherwise
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- indicated
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- 049 degs 00 mins 009 degs 00 mins 053 degs 00 mins
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- 012 degs 00 mins 058 degs 00 mins 011 degs 00 mins
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- 059 degs 00 mins 005 degs 30 mins thence to Loch Eriboll.
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- Red route: 053 degs 45 mins North 003 degs 00 mins East
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- 059 degs 45 mins 001 degs 00 mins 059 degs 45 mins
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- 003 degs 00 mins thence to Loch Eriboll.
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- c. Arrive at Loch Eriboll between sunrise and 3 hours
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- before sunset.
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- (2) Area 'B'
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- a. The Irish Sea between parallel of 051 degs 30 mins
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- and 055 degs 00 mins North.
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- b. Proceed Beaumaris Bay (053 degs 19 mins North 003
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- degs 58 mins West) to arrive between sunrise and 3 hours
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- before sunset.
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- (3) Area 'C'
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- a. The English Channel between line of Lands End -
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- Scilly Isles - Ushant and line of Dover - Calais.
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- b. 'U' Boats in area 'C' are to join one of following
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- routes at nearest point: Green route: position 'A' 049 degs
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- 10 mins North 005 degs 40 mins West position 'B' 050 degs 00
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- mins North 003 degs 00 mins West thence escorted to Weymouth.
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- Orange route: position 'X' 050 degs 30 mins North 000 degs 50
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- mins East position 'Y' 050 degs 10 mins North 001 degs 50 mins
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- West thence escorted to Weymouth.
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- c. Arrive at either 'B' or 'Y' between sunrise and 3 hours
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- before sunset.
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- (4) Area 'D'
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- a. Bound on West by lines joining The Naze and Hantsholm
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- and on East by lines joining Lubeck and Trelleborg.
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- b. Proceed to Kiel.
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- (5) Area 'E'
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- a. Mediterranean Approaches bound on North by 043 degs
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- North on South by 026 degs North and on West by 026 degs West.
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- b. Proceed to a rendezvous in position 'A' 036 degs 00
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- mins North 011 degs 00 mins West and await escort reporting
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- expected time of arrival in plain language to Admiral Gibraltar
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- on 500 kc/s.
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- c. Arrive in position 'A' between sunrise and noon G.M.T.
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- (6) Area 'F'
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- a. The North and South Atlantic West of 026 degs West.
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- b. Proceed to nearest of one of following points
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- arriving between sunrise and 3 hours before sunset: W 043
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- degs 30 mins North 070 degs 00 mins West approach from a
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- point 15 miles due East X 038 degs 20 mins North 074 degs
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- 25 mins West approach from a point 047 degs 18 mins North
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- 051 30 mins West on a course 270 degs Z 043 31 mins North
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- 065 degs 05 mins West approach from point 042 degs 59 mins
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- North 054 degs 28 mins West on a course 320 degs.
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- UNDERTAKING
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- GIVEN BY CERTAIN GERMAN EMISSARIES
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- TO THE ALLIED HIGH COMMANDS
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- It is agreeed by the German emissaries
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- undersigned that the following German officers will
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- arrive at a place and time designated by the Supreme
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- Commander, Allied Expeditionary Force, and the Soviet
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- High Command prepared, with planary powers, to execute
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- a formal ratification on behalf of the German High
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- Command of this act of Unconditional Surrender of the
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- German armed forces.
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- Chief of the High Command
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- Commander-in-Chief of the Army
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- Commander-in-Chief of the Navy
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- Commander-in-Chief of the Air Forces.
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- SIGNED
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- =JODL=
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- Representing the German High Command.
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- DATED =0241 7th May 1945=
- =Rheims, France=
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- {Reichspresident Donitz's authorization to German representatives
- to execute ratification}
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- A b s c h r i f t.
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-
- Der Oberste Befehlshaber
- Hauptquartier, den 7.5.45.
- der Wehrmact
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- /Bitte in der Antwort vorstehendes
- Geschaftszeichen, das Datum und
- kurzen Inhalt anzugegen./
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- ICH BEVOLLMACHTIGE
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- GENERALFELDMARSCHALL K E I T E L
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- ALS CHEF DES OBERKOMMANDOS DER
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- WEHRMACHT UND ZUGLEICH ALS OBER-
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- BEFEHLSHABER DES HEERES,
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- GENERALADMIRAL VON FRIEDBERG
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- ALS OBERBEFEHLSHABER DER KRIEGSMARINE,
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- GENERALOBERST S T U M P F
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- ALS VERTRETER DES OBERBEFEHLSHABERS
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- DER LUFTWAFFE
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- ZUR RATIFIZIERUNG DER BEDINGUNGSLKSEN
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- KAPITULATION DER DEUTSCHEN STREITKRAFTE GEGEN-
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- UBER DEM OBERBEFEHLSHABER DER ALLIIERTEN
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- EXPEDITIONSSTREITKRAFTE UND DEM SOWYET-OBER-
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- KOMMANDO.
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- DONITZ
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- GROBADMIRAL.
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- Siegel.
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- ACT OF MULITARY SURRENDER
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- 1. We the undersigned, acting by authority
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- of the German High Command, hereby surrender
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- unconditionally to the Supreme Commander, Allied
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- Expeditionary Force and simultaneously to the
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- Supreme High Command of the Red Army all forces
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- on land, at sea, and in the air who are at this
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- date under German control.
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- 2. The German High Command will at once
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- issue order to all German military, naval and
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- air authorities and to all forces under German
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- control to cease active operations at 2301 hours
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- Central European time on 8th May 1945, to remain
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- in all positions occupied at that time and to
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- disarm completely, handing over their weapons and
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- equipment to the local allied commanders or officers
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- designated by Representatives of the Allied Supreme
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- Commands. No ship, vessel, or aircraft is to be
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- scuttled, or any damage done to their hull,
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- machinery or equipment, and also to machines of all
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- kinds, armament, apparatus, and all the technical
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- means of prosecution of war in general.
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- 3. The German High Command will at once
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- issue to the appropriate commanders, and ensure
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- the carrying out of any further orders issued by
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- the Supreme Commander, Allied Expeditionary Force
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- and by the Supreme Command of the Red Army.
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- 4. This act of military surrender is without
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- prejudice to, and will be superseded by any general
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- instrument of surrender imposed by, or on behalf of
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- the United Nations and applicable to GERMANY and
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- the German armed forces as a whole.
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- 5. In the event of the German High Command
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- or any of the forces under their control failing
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- to act in accordance with this Act of Surrender,
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- the Supreme Commander, Allied Expeditionary Force
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- and the Supreme High Command of the Red Army will
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- take such punitive or other action as they deem
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- appropriate.
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- 6. This Act is drawn up in the English,
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- Russian and German languages. The English and
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- Russian are the only authentic texts.
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- Signed at =Berlin= on the =8 . = day of May, 1945
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- =Von Friedeburg= =Keitel= =Stumpff=
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- On behalf of the German High Command
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-
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- IN THE PRESENCE OF:
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- =A.W.Tedder=
- On behalf of the On behalf of the
- Supreme Commander Supreme High Command of the
- Allied Expeditionary Force Red Army
- =Georgi Zhukov=
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- At the signing also were present as witnesses:
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- =F. de Lattre-Tassigny= =Carl Spaatz=
- General Commanding in Chief General, Commanding
- First French Army United States Strategic Air Force
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- BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
-
-
- A PROCLAMATION
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-
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- The Allied armies, through sacrifice and devotion and with
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- God's help, have wrung from Germany a final and unconditional
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- surrender. The western world has been freed of the evil forces
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- which for five years and longer have imprisoned the bodies and
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- broken the lives of millions upon millions of free-born men.
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- They have violated their churches, destroyed their homes, cor-
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- rupted their children, and murdered their loved ones. Our Armies
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- of Liberation have restored freedom to these suffering peoples,
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- whose spirit and will the oppressors could never enslave.
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- Much remains to be done. The victory won in the West must
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- now be won in the East. The whole world must be cleansed of the
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- evil from which half the world has been freed. United, the
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- peace-loving nations have demonstrated in the West that their arms
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- are stronger by far than the might of dictators or the tyranny of
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- military cliques that once called us soft and weak. The power of
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- our peoples to defend themselves against all enemies will be proved
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- in the Pacific was as it has been proved in Europe.
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- For the trimuph of spirit and of arms which we have won, and
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- of its promise to peoples everywhere who join us in the love of
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- freedom, it is fitting that we, as a nation, give thanks to
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- Almighty God, who has strengthened us and given us the victory.
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- NOW, THEREFORE, I, HARRY S. TRUMAN, President of the United
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- States of America, do hereby appoint Sunday, May 13, 1945 to be a
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- day of prayer.
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- I call upon the people of the United States, whatever their
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- faith, to unite in offering joyful thanks to God for the victory
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- we have won and to pray that He will support us to the end of our
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- present struggle and guide us into the way of peace.
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- I also call upon my countrymen to dedicate this day of prayer
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- to the memory of those who have given their lives to make possible
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- our victory.
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- IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused
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- the seal of the United States of America to be affixed.
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- Done at the City of Washington this eighth day of May in
- .. the year of our Lord
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- | | nineteen hundred
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- | | and forty-five
- | T H E G R E A T S E A L |
- | | and of the
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- | O F T H E | Independence
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- | | of the United
- | U N I T E D S T A T E S |
- | | States of America
- | O F |
- | | the one hundred
- | A M E R I C A |
- | | and sixty-ninth.
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- By the President: =Harry S. Truman=
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