European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 9, 1948, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes 3rd year of peace ims by Norbert staff correspondent May 8 years today the shooting stopped All Over in every Allied City there was wild rejoicing to celebrate be but it was Here i the Champagne capital of that Dwight As supreme commander of Allied expeditionary forces had his most triumphant moment a Day at his sheaf office in the big red three German representatives of the German High stood at attention before Eisenhower asked them sternly do you understand the terms of this unconditional surrender and Are you ready to comply with them the message was standing in the Center of the German Alfred Gustav erect arid his uniform neatly his boots highly clicked his he bowed his head to show he when the left the supreme com Ivan Sousla Arof f of the soviet High led a group of russian officers into the office and firmly grasped Eisenhower this is a great moment for All of Eisen Hower said the russian general spoke and when his words were interpreted Eisenhower grinned and you said then he went to his War room on the other Side of the schoolhouse to record his Victory speech to the just a few minutes he Germany surrendered All of sea and air it has been thoroughly it was about 3 May the next Day it was All in the courtyard of the 100 French children will sing before a delegation of High Allied officials to commemorate the third anniversary of the signing of the sur Render the some have since moved Back into the the modern technical College of but the War where the surrender was actually a playroom for student is now an International nothing has been the maps on the some of them 12 feet As he looked just after the main Entrance to the school Are just As they wore three years there Are a Battle map showing the disposition of a and air Force one Chart shews the Allied casualties As of wounded and casualties next to the casualty Chart is a graph formed b Center of which is a red thermometer showing to soldiers captured by the Allied Between june and May an air Force Char dated May entitled lists total 877 a slightly battered around which sat and signed the surrender is in the same chairs Are marked with the names of them on that historic according to Gaston assistant director Oil was hoisted up from the school Yard through the Wim on the second just before the we moved our then about 900 into the Annex across the Yard when Eisen Hower took Over our main Hall for his Headquarters late in Crampe although we were in the same none of us Ever suspected what was going on that we didst know surrender had been signed in our old playroom until we Reaa the Paris unless the visitor to the set Roehder room looks closely he is Apt to miss the mimeographed piece of paper pasted up near the it is the top secret sheaf War room daily summary for May it tells the Story in a single paragraph surrender the German government sur rendered unconditionally at at 0241 hours May the instrument of sur Render was signed by Bedell Smith for the supreme commander and by Alfred Jodl for the German Ivan Sousla Arof f signed the representative of the russians and Francois seven signed the French hostilities scially ceased 2301 hours Central european two of those signers Ere not alive on this be Jodl was hanged at Nurnberg with the other German leaders seven was killed in a Hunting Accident near bade Baden last february when a Bullet ricocheted into his heart off the Back of a then chief of staff to supreme is now the american ambassador to there were american sol age Fai Eisenhower Victory order of the Day excerpts from the text of Dwight Eise showers Victory order of the Day follows a French the War room Vii Send a painting of men and women of the Allied expeditionary Force the crusade on which we embarked in the Early summer of 1944 has reached its Glori Ous it is my Especial in the name of All nations represented in this theater to commend each of you for valiant performance of though these words Are they come from the Bottom of a heart overflowing with Pride in your Loyal service and admiration for you As your accomplishments at in the on the ground in the Field of Supply have astonished the even before the final week of the you had put of the enemy permanently out of the you have taken in stride military tasks so difficult As to be classed by Many doubters As you have Defeated and destroyed your savagely fighting on the Road to Victory you have endured every discomfort and privation have surmounted every obstacle ingenuity and desperation could throw in your you did not pause our front was firmly joined up with the great red army coming from the East and other Allied forces coming from the full Victory in Europe has been working and fighting together in a single and indestructible you have a Dii eved a perfection in unification of ground and naval the route you have travelled through hundreds of Miles is marked by the Graves of former from them has Beun exacted the supreme of Many m e r i c a polish and helped to gain the each of the fallen died As a member of the team to which you bound together by a common love of Liberty and a refusal to submit to enslavement Monument of no memorial of whatever magnitude co old so Well express our respect and Vene a Tion for their sacrifice As would perpetuation of the spirit of comradeship in which they As we celebrate Vul tory in let us remind ourselves that our common problems of the immediate and Distant future can be Best solved in the same conceptions of co operation and Devotion to the cause of human Freedom As have made this expeditionary Force such a mighty engine of righteous let us have no part in t he profitless quarrels in which other men will inevitably engage As to what coun what won the euro Pean every every woman of every nation Here represented has served this we shall in doing so we shall be revering each honoured grave and be sending Comfort to the loved ones of who could not live to this diff had of a 3