The German Surrender in May 1945

On 8 May 1945 World War II ended in Europe with the surrender of the German Wehrmacht in Berlin-Karlshorst.

Ort der bedingungslosen Kapitulation der Wehrmacht, ehemaliges Offizierskasino der Pionierschule I, in Berlin-Karlshorst, 8. Mai 1945 – Ort der bedingungslosen Kapitulation der Wehrmacht, ehemaliges Offizierskasino der Pionierschule I, in Berlin-Karlshorst, 8. Mai 1945

In today’s museum building, which was built by the Wehrmacht in Karlshorst in 1936/38 and had been used by the Red Army as a command post in the last days of the war, the representatives of the Allied forces gathered. Facing them, the German supreme commanders of the army, navy and air force had to sign the surrender document in a simple ceremony.

To mark the 80th anniversary, the Museum Berlin-Karlshorst has revised the special exhibition ‘The German Surrender in May 1945’. It is being presented in a new form in the museum garden. It examines the historical events surrounding the end of the war in Europe and Germany’s unconditional surrender.

The exhibition can be seen “open air” in the museum garden.

Runtime: from May 2025

Takes place here:

• Museum Berlin-Karlshorst