Undertaking Given by Certain German Emissaries to the Allied High Commands

Undertaking Given by Certain German Emissaries to the Allied High Commands (1945)
authority of the German High Command

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This is an agreement, signed by Generaloberst Alfred Jodl, for the highest ranking German commanders to arrive at a designated time and place in order to ratify the act of unconditional surrender.

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UNDERTAKING

GIVEN BY CERTAIN GERMAN EMISSARIES

TO THE ALLIED HIGH COMMANDS

⁠It is agreed by the German emissaries undersigned that the following German officers will arrive at a place and time designated by the Supreme Commander, Allied Expeditionary Force, and the Soviet High Command prepared, with plenary powers, to execute a formal ratification on behalf of the German High Command of this act of Unconditional Surrender of the German armed forces.

⁠Chief of the High Command

⁠Commander-in-Chief of the Army

⁠Commander-in-Chief of the Navy

⁠Commander-in-Chief of the Air Forces.

SIGNED

Jodl

Representing the German High Command.

DATED 0241 7th May 1945

⁠Rheims, France

This work is in the public domain in the United States because it is a work of the United States federal government (see 17 U.S.C. 105).

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