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This preliminary instrument of surrender was signed on May 7, 1945, at Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower's headquarters in Rheims by Gen. Alfred Jodl, Chief of Staff of the German Army. At the same time, he signed three other surrender documents, one each for Great Britain, the Soviet Union, and France.

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On behalf of the German High Command. JODL

IN THE PRESENCE OF On behalf of the Supreme Commander, Allied Expeditionary Force. W. B. SMITH

On behalf of the Soviet High Command. SOUSLOPAROV

F SEVEZ Major General, French Army

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