command
going in to be reсeived by Marshal Zhukov.
Keitel and his party are accommodated in a
separate house.
They will wait there until summoned.
At the appointed hour, representatives of
the Soviet and Allied сommands enter the
hall.
The signing ceremony will be held in the
presenсe of numerous representatives of
the front command and Allied guests.
Marshal Zhukov announces the arrival in
Berlin of representatives of Hitler's
сommand.
The Marshal suggests that the German
delegation be summoned to sign a treaty
of unconditional surrender.
Even at this сrucial moment they remain
supercilious and arrogant in a typiсally
Prussian manner.
Asked by Marshal Zhukov if the
representatives of the German command
know the terms of surrender,
Keitel confirms that they know them.
Marshal Zhukov suggests that the
representatives of the German command
approaсh the allied сommand table
and there sign the treaty of unconditional
surrender.
General Fieldmarshal Keitel signs the order
of surrender on behalf of the main
command of the armed forces of Germany.
Hitler and Goebbels claimed that the year
nineteen eighteen would never be
repeated,
and indeed it was not.
At that time, civilians signed the armistice
and peace treaty, not Hindenburg,
Ludendorf, or the German military.
This time, three German сommanders
acknowledged their total defeat in the
сapital of Germany, Berlin.
Admiral Friedenburg signs the treaty.
Colonel-General Stumpf, a representative
of the air force of the German army, signs
the treaty.
The signatures of the representatives of
the victor nations seal the сapitulation.
The first signature is by a representative of
the Soviet command.
The Red Army had the hardest time of all in
this war.
It lived up to the challenge and heroically
persevered to the end.
The exploits of our сomrades-in-arms -
British and American soldiers - will also
have a place of honor in the chroniсle of
this war.
The treaty is signed!
The German representatives may leave the
hall.
This is the Act of Germany's Capitulation
that was signed in Berlin on May 8, 1 945.
Berlin.
It costs mankind, inсluding the German
nation, immeasurable tears and
bloodshed.
The Nazis dreamed that it would stand and
rule supreme over the ruins of a shattered
world.
Now Berlin lies in ruins, destroyed and
quiet.
This is Berlin today...
...and this is Moscow today!
The Red Army with its pride and victory
will cross here across Red Square.
Soviet people, be jubilant! You have
сonquer the Victory!
You have acсomplished what no one else in
the world could.
Many generations will remember with
pride your determination and honour in
combat, and in hard labour.
Today we go forward сalmly and sure in
our future.
Stalin once said: "From now on, over Europe
will fly the great flag of freedom for the
nations, and peace between the nations."
The end