SPECIAL EXHIBITION

The German Surrender in May 1945


Site of the unconditional surrender of the Wehrmacht, former officers’ mess of Pioneer School I, in Berlin-Karlshorst, 8 May 1945 © Museum Berlin-Karlshorst | Photo: Timofej Melnik

On 8 May 1945 World War II ended in Europe with the surrender of the German Wehrmacht in Berlin-Karlshorst.

In today’s museum building, which was built by the Wehrmacht in Karlshorst in 1936/38 and had been used by the Red Army as a command post in the last days of the war, the representatives of the Allied forces gathered. Facing them, the German supreme commanders of the army, navy and air force had to sign the surrender document in a simple ceremony.

The exhibition can be seen “open air” in the museum garden.

EXHIBITION DURATION
Until further notice

LANGUAGES
German/English/Russian

GUIDED TOURS
Public guided tours every sunday at 3 p.m. (in German language)

PUBLICATIONS

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Uta Mühlisch
E-mail: muehlisch(at)museum-karlshorst.de
Tel.: +49 (0)30 501508-41
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