Uploaded September 2024 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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On May 8, 1945, the supreme commanders of the German Wehrmacht signed the unconditional surrender before representatives of the Allies in this former officer's mess hall in Berlin-Karlshorst. It marked the end of the Second World War in Europe.

Constructed in the late 1930s as an officers’ mess for the Wehrmacht, the building was the seat of the head of the Soviet military administration in Germany from 1945 to 1949.

Today Karlshorst is a museum.