[Worldtraveler once upon a time]

An important day, without question or reservations!

One reads:

This instrument of surrender was signed on May 7, 1945, at Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower's headquarters in Reims by Gen. Alfred Jodl, Chief of Staff of the German Army.

The unconditional surrender of the German Third Reich was signed in the early morning hours of Monday, May 7, 1945, at Supreme Headquarters, Allied Expeditionary Force (SHAEF) at Reims in northeastern France.

General Alfred Jodl, Chief of Staff of the German Army, signed three other surrender documents at the same time, one each for Great Britain, Russia, and France.

Present were representatives of the four Allied Powers – France, Great Britain, the Soviet Union, and the United States – and the three German officers delegated by German President Karl Doenitz. These were: Gen. Alfred Jodl, who alone had been authorized to sign the surrender document; Maj. Wilhelm Oxenius, an aide to Jodl; and Adm. Hans-Georg von Friedeburg, one of the German chief negotiators.

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Source: Surrender of Germany (1945) The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration

And later that year "....hanged at Nuremberg Prison on 16 October 1946...."

[Vermont Lt]

“ one of the German chief negotiators”
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Talk about an easy gig.

“I am here to negotiate.”
“No negotiations.”
“Okaaaayy. Looks like we are done here. It’s all yours, Jodl.”

[pierrem15]

Jodl was executed, Oxenius died in 1979 and von Friedeburg committed suicide when the rump Flensburg government was dissolved.