A document representing the end of one of history’s most brutal regimes sold Wednesday night at RR Auction for $166,333, surpassing its pre-auction estimate of $100,000. Following Adolf Hitler’s ...

Only a few months before, in the summer of 1944, Alfred Jodl had to listen as Der Fuhrer screeched at him in the Wolf's Lair: Jodl, Brennt Paris? No, Paris wasn't burning--because Herr Hitler's people ...

On this day in 1945, Gen. Alfred Jodl, representing the German High Command, signed a document unconditionally surrendering all German forces, thereby all but ending World War II in Europe. The ...

The first Instrument of Surrender was signed in Reims at 02:41 Central European Time on 7 May 1945. General Alfred Jodl signed on behalf of Nazi Germany, with Walter Bedell Smith signing on behalf of ...

MICHAEL E. RUANE/The Washington Post. The Nazi general wanted to use the bathroom. World War II in Europe had just ended. And U.S. Army Capt. Seymour S. Steinberg, a baker’s son from Manhattan who had ...

“The next Trivial Pursuit card is, ‘What is May 7, 1945?” “Ken, do you know the answer?” “Yes, but my answer is involved.” The Supreme Allied Commander was Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower. In early May the ...