what battle did germany surrender in ww2?
Berlin
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 The German offensive — named Unternehmen Gelb ( Operation Yellow ) , and also known as the Manstein Plan — began in the West on 10 May 1940 . The central campaign — the Battle of France — ended in Allied defeat and the destruction of the main French Army forces . The British Expeditionary Force escaped during the Battle of Dunkirk , but the Wehrmacht captured Paris on 14 June and overran ⅔ of France . The French surrendered on 25 June 1940 . 

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 German forces surrendered in Italy on 29 April . Total and unconditional surrender was signed on 7 May , to be effective by the end of 8 May . German Army Group Centre resisted in Prague until 11 May . 

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 On 6 June 1944 , American , British , and Canadian forces established a western front with the D @-@ Day landings in Normandy . On 20 July 1944 , Hitler narrowly survived a bomb attack . He ordered savage reprisals , resulting in 7 @,@ 000 arrests and the execution of more than 4 @,@ 900 people . The failed Ardennes Offensive ( 16 December 1944 – 25 January 1945 ) was the last major German campaign of the war . Soviet forces entered Germany on 27 January . Hitler 's refusal to admit defeat and his repeated insistence that the war be fought to the last man led to unnecessary death and destruction in the closing months of the war . Through his Justice Minister , Otto Georg Thierack , he ordered that anyone who was not prepared to fight should be summarily court @-@ martialed . Thousands of people were put to death . In many areas , people looked for ways to surrender to the approaching Allies , in spite of exhortations of local leaders to continue the struggle . Hitler also ordered the intentional destruction of transport , bridges , industries , and other infrastructure — a scorched earth decree — but Armaments Minister Albert Speer was able to keep this order from being fully carried out . 

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 Germany surrendered unconditionally on 8 May 1945 . Hess , facing charges as a war criminal , was ordered to appear before the International Military Tribunal and was transported to Nuremberg on 10 October 1945 . 

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 Hitler decided that the summer 1942 campaign would be concentrated in the south ; efforts would be made to capture the oilfields in the Caucasus . The Battle of Stalingrad , a major turning point of the war , began on 23 August 1942 with a bombing campaign by the Luftwaffe . The Sixth Army entered the city , but because of its location on the front line , it was still possible for the Soviets to encircle and trap it there without reinforcements or supplies . When the Sixth Army was surrounded by the end of November in Operation Uranus , Göring promised that the Luftwaffe would be able to deliver a minimum of 300 tons of supplies to the trapped men every day . On the basis of these assurances , Hitler demanded that there be no retreat ; they were to fight to the last man . Though some airlifts were able to get through , the amount of supplies delivered never exceeded 120 tons per day . The remnants of the German Sixth Army — some 91 @,@ 000 men out of an army of 285 @,@ 000 — surrendered in early February 1943 ; only 5 @,@ 000 of these captives survived the Russian prisoner of war camps to see Germany again . 
