Germany's Surrender Photographs | World War II Database

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The British Royal family and Prime Minister Winston Churchill responding to the cheering crowds on the surrender of Germany, Buckingham Palace balcony, London, England, United Kingdom, May 8, 1945.	Victory celebration at the Bolshoy Kamenny Bridge near the Kremlin (background), Moscow, Russia, May 1945	Wilhelm Keitel signing surrender documents at the Soviet headquarters near Berlin, Germany, 8 May 1945	African-American troops read President Truman's Proclamation of Victory in Europe, Burma, 9 May 1945

Red Army soldiers celebrating the victory in Berlin, Germany, May 1945	Soviet Army photographer Yevgeny Khaldei in Berlin, Germany, May 1945; note Brandenburg Gate in background	Destroyer HMS Malcolm approaching German submarine U-541 after the U-Boat surrendered pursuant to Germany’s surrender terms, 11 May 1945 off Portugal, photographed from a PBY from VPB-63.	Prisoner of war camp in Sinzig, Germany, 12 May 1945

German submarine U-858, the first to be boarded by US forces after Germany’s surrender, arriving at the Delaware Capes, Delaware, United States, 14 May 1945. Note Sikorsky HNS-I Helicopter and K-class airship.	Soviet Information Bureau newspaper announcing 'the acceptance of captured German soldiers is over at all the fronts', 15 May 1945	Dönitz, Jodl, and Speer being arrested by British troops, 23 May 1945	Germany’s Minister of Production Albert Speer, Großadmiral (and later President) Karl Dönitz, and Generaloberst Alfred Jodl, speak to British war correspondents the day after their arrest in Flensburg, Germany, 24 May 1945.

The first US soldiers to return home from France under the Army's new point system, Le Havre, France, 25 May 1945	Aerial view of a camp for German prisoners of war, Germany, 1945	German child playing with abandoned weapons, Berlin, Germany, 1945	German child playing with abandoned weapons, Berlin, Germany, 1945

Hungarian prisoners of war being guarded by a US soldier, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, circa May-Jun 1945	US and Soviet personnel mingling in Germany, 1945	General Anthony McAuliffe unveiling the German surrender document in the rotunda of the National Archives Building, Washington DC, United States, 6 Jun 1945	Georgy Zhukov at the Red Square victory parade, Moscow, Russia, 24 Jun 1945; note Chinese attaché Guo Dequan in background