Unconditional surrender of germany ratified in Berlin. Marshal Goergi K.

Unconditional surrender of germany ratified in Berlin. Marshal Goergi K. Zhukov, Deputy Commancer in Chief of all Soviet Forces, signs on behalf of the Soviet Union, at the Soviet Army Headquarters in the great hall of the German Military Academy in Berlin May, 1945, a copy of the instrument of ratification of the unconditional surrender of Germany to the Allies originally signed at Reims, France May 7, 1945. Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel, Chief of the German General Staff, was the first to sign the ratification at 00:15 a.m.