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At the Supreme Headquarters of the Allied Expeditionary Force, aka SHAEF, General Alfred Jodl is seen sitting alongside Wehrmacht officer Wilhelm Oxenius and German Admiral Hans-Georg von Friedeburg. A close up shot of a paper with their signatures to mark the unconditional German surrender of WWII. Followed by Jodl standing up from the table and leaving. Reims, France, 1945. Victory in Europe Day is the day celebrating the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces on Tuesday, 8 May 1945; it marked the official end of World War II in Europe in the Eastern Front, with the last known shots fired on 11 May. Alfred Josef Ferdinand Jodl was a German Generaloberst who served as the Chief of the Operations Staff of the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht – the German Armed Forces High Command – throughout World War II.Major Wilhelm Oxenius was a German Wehrmacht officer during World War II. Oxenius served as an aide to Colonel General Alfred Jodl during World War II as a staff officer at the Operations Directorate of the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht. He was also an Operations Officer for Panzergruppe West in France in June 1944. Hans-Georg von Friedeburg was a German admiral, the deputy commander of the U-boat Forces of Nazi Germany and the second-to-last Commander-in-Chief of the Kriegsmarine. Colorized content.