The Nazi general wanted to use the bathroom. World War II in Europe had just ended. And U.S. Army Capt. Seymour S. Steinberg, a baker's son from Manhattan who had custody of the German officer, ...

On this day in 1945, Gen. Alfred Jodl, representing the German High Command, signed a document unconditionally surrendering all German forces, thereby all but ending World War II in Europe. The ...

General Alfred Jodl signed Germany’s capitulation in this beautiful French city 80 years ago today – and it’s going big for the anniversary Anthony Peregrine was a reporter at the Lancashire Evening ...

The first Instrument of Surrender was signed in Reims at 02:41 Central European Time on 7 May 1945. General Alfred Jodl signed on behalf of Nazi Germany, with Walter Bedell Smith signing on behalf of ...

Only a few months before, in the summer of 1944, Alfred Jodl had to listen as Der Fuhrer screeched at him in the Wolf's Lair: Jodl, Brennt Paris? No, Paris wasn't burning--because Herr Hitler's people ...