<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> <P> At 02: 41 on the morning of 7 May, at SHAEF headquarters in Reims, France, the Chief - of - Staff of the German Armed Forces High Command, General Alfred Jodl, signed an unconditional surrender document for all German forces to the Allies, committing representatives of the German High Command to attend a definitive signing ceremony in Berlin . General Franz Böhme announced the unconditional surrender of German troops in Norway on 7 May . It included the phrase "All forces under German control to cease active operations at 2301 hours Central European Time on May 8, 1945 ." The next day, Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel and other German OKW representatives travelled to Berlin, and shortly before midnight signed an amended and definitive document of unconditional surrender, explicitly surrendering to all the Allied forces in the presence of Marshal Georgi Zhukov and representatives of SHAEF . The signing ceremony took place in a former German Army Engineering School in the Berlin district of Karlshorst; it now houses the German - Russian Museum Berlin - Karlshorst . </P> <P> German forces on the Channel Islands surrender: At 10: 00 on 8 May, the Channel Islanders were informed by the German authorities that the war was over . British Prime Minister Winston Churchill made a radio broadcast at 15: 00 during which he announced: "Hostilities will end officially at one minute after midnight tonight, but in the interests of saving lives the' Cease fire' began yesterday to be sounded all along the front, and our dear Channel Islands are also to be freed today ." </P>

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