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| 1157 | Frederick I Barbarossa |  |
| Frederick I Invades Poland & forces the submission of Duke Boleslav IV |
| 1918 | Ludendorf, Erich von | |
| 29th Sep Advises the Kaiser that military victory is impossible |
| 1st Oct Ludendorf cables the government to transmit a peace offer wihout further delay |
| 1940 | Hitler, Adolf | |
| 1st May Norway surrenders to Germany |
| 15th May Holland surrenders to Germany |
| 28th May Brussels The King of the Belgians surrenders the Belgian Army to the Germans |
| June Compiegne After France's surrender peace negotiations take place in a railway carriage |
| June Compiegne The same railway carriage used to sign the Armistice in 1918 |
| 1940 | Reichenau, Walter von | |
| 31st May Offers the French their terms of surrender |
| 1940 | Rommel, Erwin Johannes Eugen | |
| 31st May The French 1st Army surrenders |
| 1943 | Hitler, Adolf | |
| 3rd Sep Italy surrenders to the Allies |
| 1943 | Paulus, Friedrich von | |
| 31st Jan Stalingrad Paulus surrenders the 6th Army at the battle of Stalingrad |
| 1944 | Hitler, Adolf | |
| 23rd Aug Paris Paris "should not fall into the hands of the enemy except as a field of ruins" |
| Sep Italy surrenders to the Allies |
| 1944 | Rommel, Erwin Johannes Eugen | |
| 29th June Obersalzburg Appeals with Hitler to surrender, Hitler promises new "miracle weapons" |
| 1945 | Doenitz, Karl | |
| 2nd May Berlin Berlin surrenders to the Soviet Army |
| 7th May Rheims Authorizes unconditional surrender of all German fighting forces |
| 7th May Unconditional surrender of all German forces to the Allies |
| 1945 | Hitler, Adolf | |
| 29th April The German Army on the Italian Front surrenders |
| 1st May German troops in Italy, Austria, Holland & Norway surrender |
| 1945 | Jodl, Alfred | |
| 8th May Rheims Signs the German surrender to the Allies at Rheims , effective from May 8 |
| 1945 | Keitel, Wilhelm | |
| 9th May Signs act of military surrender to the Allies |
| 1945 | Kesselring, Albrecht | |
| 6th May Surrenders to the Americans |
| 1945 | Krosigk | |
| 7th May Proclaims the capitulation of Germany to the Allies in a national broadcast |
| 1945 | Nehring, Walter Kurt Josef | |
| Tabor Surrenders to the Americans in Tabor |
