The Berlin International Human Rights Congress (BIHRC)

"Human Rights and Democracy in a Globalized World - Moving Towards an International Consensus"

(Berlin; October 1st - 4th, 2010)

Human Rights Introduction

May 9, 1945

The War is Over

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Signed by Field Marshall Wilhem Keitel, Germany makes an unconditional surrender in World War II. Hitler is dead, the Nazi regime has crumbled and a wealth of possibilities for peace emerges. The momentum of the prelude to the Cold War is gathering, which will have lasting effects for the following forty years.