Museum Berlin-Karlshorst
Site of the officers' mess where the Wehrmacht signed its unconditional surrender at midnight in May nineteen forty-five.
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This guide to Museum Berlin-Karlshorst returns to the night of May 8 to 9, 1945, when German commanders were kept waiting for hours in this former Wehrmacht officers' mess before the Allied delegation arrived for its own surrender ceremony. It follows Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel's unsteady walk into the room, his loosened monocle, and Marshal Zhukov presiding from the head of the hall, alongside the French, American and Soviet officers gathered as witnesses. Picture the hall as it was that night as you stand in it now.
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