<P> Central Europe: On 5 May 1945, the Czech resistance started the Prague uprising . The following day, the Soviets launched the Prague Offensive . In Dresden, Gauleiter Martin Mutschmann let it be known that a large - scale German offensive on the Eastern Front was about to be launched . Within two days, Mutschmann abandoned the city, but was captured by Soviet troops while trying to escape . </P> <P> Hermann Göring's surrender: On 6 May, Reichsmarshall and Hitler's second - in - command, Hermann Göring, surrendered to General Carl Spaatz, who was the commander of the operational United States Air Forces in Europe, along with his wife and daughter at the Germany - Austria border . He was by this time the most powerful Nazi official still alive . </P> <P> German forces in Breslau surrender: At 18: 00 on 6 May, General Hermann Niehoff, the commandant of Breslau, a' fortress' city surrounded and besieged for months, surrendered to the Soviets . </P> <P> Jodl and Keitel surrender all German armed forces unconditionally: Thirty minutes after the fall of "Festung Breslau" (Fortress Breslau), General Alfred Jodl arrived in Reims and, following Dönitz's instructions, offered to surrender all forces fighting the Western Allies . This was exactly the same negotiating position that von Friedeburg had initially made to Montgomery, and like Montgomery the Supreme Allied Commander, General Dwight D. Eisenhower, threatened to break off all negotiations unless the Germans agreed to a complete unconditional surrender to all the Allies on all fronts . Eisenhower explicitly told Jodl that he would order western lines closed to German soldiers, thus forcing them to surrender to the Soviets . Jodl sent a signal to Dönitz, who was in Flensburg, informing him of Eisenhower's declaration . Shortly after midnight, Dönitz, accepting the inevitable, sent a signal to Jodl authorizing the complete and total surrender of all German forces . </P>

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