Signing Surrender Document for Germans
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Signing Surrender Document for Germans

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Photograph

Associated Press

Maker
American

Signing Surrender Document for Germans

April 29, 1945
Gelatin silver print
Image: 16.8 x 21.2 cm (6 5/8 x 8 3/8 in.)
Paper: 18.2 x 22.9 cm (7 3/16 x 9 in.)
Gift of Vincent S. Jones
1976.0356.0016
Inscriptions verso (typed on attached sheet): 13163 C / ASSOCIATED PRESS RADIOPHOTO VIA SIGNAL CORPS / FROM NEW YORK / CAUTION: USE CREDIT / SIGNING SURRENDER DUCUMENT FOR GERMANS / A GERMAN REPRESENTATIVE, UNNAMED, OF COL. GEN. / HEINRICH VON VIETINGHOFF-SCHEEL SITS AT A TABLE / IN THE ROYAL PALACE AT CASERTA, ITALY, APRIL 29, / AS HE SIGNS DOCUMENTS CALLING FOR THE SURRENDER / OF ENEMY FORCES IN NORTHERN ITALY AND WESTERN / AUSTRIA. OTHERS IN THE PICTURE ARE NOT / IDENTIFIED. THIS IS A BRITISH OFFICIAL PHOTO. / ASSOCIATED PRESS RADIOPHOTO / MD-5-2-45 910P BOP-SCR-WX / CAP ABC TMC MEX BAIRES
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