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Capsized Admiral Scheer, Kiel, Germany, 7 May 1945	Chief Air Marshall Sir Arthur Tedder and LtGen Carl Spaatz in the office of Marshall Georgy Zhukov before the German surrender was signed at Zhukov’s Headquarters at Karlshorst, Berlin, Germany, 7 May 1945

Soviet Marshal Konstantin Rokossovsky, left, greeting British Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery, right, during a visit to Rokossovsky’s headquarters in Wismar, Germany, 7 May 1945.	Edward J. O'Rourke, Jr. of Company G, 30th Infantry Regiment, US 3rd Division, Germany, circa 8 May 1945

Georgi Zhukov and other Soviet officers at the German surrender ceremony, Karlshorst, Berlin, Germany, 8 May 1945	Georgi Zhukov signing the German surrender document, Karlshorst, Berlin, Germany, 8 May 1945, photo 1 of 2

Georgi Zhukov signing the German surrender document, Karlshorst, Berlin, Germany, 8 May 1945, photo 2 of 2	Georgy Zhukov reading the act of the German surrender, with Arthur Tedder seated next to him, Berlin, Germany, 8 May 1945

German Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel formally surrendering to Soviet Marshal Georgi Zhukov, Berlin, Germany, 8 May 1945	German Generaloberst Hans-Jürgen Stumpff, Generalfeldmarschall Wilhelm Keitel, and Generaladmiral Hans-Georg von Friedeburg at the surrender ceremony at Karlshorst, Berlin, Germany, 8 May 1945 Photo 1 of 2

German Generaloberst Hans-Jürgen Stumpff, Generalfeldmarschall Wilhelm Keitel, and Generaladmiral Hans-Georg von Friedeburg at the surrender ceremony at Karlshorst, Berlin, Germany, 8 May 1945. Photo 2 of 2	Wilhelm Keitel signing surrender documents at the Soviet headquarters near Berlin, Germany, 8 May 1945

Generals Henry (Harry) Crerar and Miles Dempsey flank Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery at Montgomery’s headquarters at Lüneburg Heath, Germany, 10 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	Soviet troops flying a flag atop Hotel Adlon on Unter den Linden, Berlin, Germany, May 1945

A German woman covering her nose and mouth as she walked by the 800 exhumed bodies of forced laborers murdered by SS men, near Nammering, Germany, 17 May 1945	German cruiser Admiral Hipper in dry dock at Kiel, Germany after being captured by the Allies, 19 May 1945. Note German attempts at camouflage and damage from Allied bombing.

Two days after all internees were evacuated from Bergen-Belsen, the last hut was set alight by a British flame thrower and burned to the ground due to the thick presence of typhus and lice, 21 May 1945.	Heinrich Himmler dead at Lüneburg, Germany, 23 May 1945