Following the signing at Reims on 7 May, Stalin insisted on a definitive ceremony in Berlin. Keitel signed the unconditional surrender before Zhukov at Karlshorst late on 8 May, after midnight Moscow time, which is why the Soviet Union and its successors mark Victory Day on 9 May.
Keitel, Stumpff and von Friedeburg sign the surrender at Karlshorst shortly before midnight Berlin time.
Victory Day is proclaimed in Moscow with a salute of a thousand guns.
Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel signing the unconditional surrender of the German Wehrmacht at the Soviet headquarters in Karlshorst, Berlin.Adam Cuerden · Public domain · sourceПодписание первого акта о капитуляции Германии генерал-полковником А. Йодлем. В торце стола сидит военный разведчик полковник Иван Иосифович Зенькович.Unknown authorUnknown author or not provided · Public domain · sourceField Marshal Wilhelm Keitel signing the unconditional surrender of the German Wehrmacht at the Soviet headquarters in Karlshorst, Berlin.Adam Cuerden · Public domain · sourceThird page of the German Instrument of Surrender of May 8, 1945 signed at Berlin, Germany. German instrument of unconditional surrender of all German Forces to the Allied Expeditionary Force and the Red Army's Supreme HiJoint Chiefs of Staff · Public domain · source
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