On May 7 1945 the remaining members of the German military met with allied forces at the Reims Industrial School in northern France to offer a complete and unconditional surrender, ending the Second World War in Europe.Colonel General Gustav Jodl signed the document for Germany saying at the time that the Germans had given themselves "for better or worse into the victors' hands".----------------------- Gallery: World War Two in Europe ends --------------------------- One week before Adolf Hitler had suicided in his bunker under the centre of the Berlin leaving command of the nation's remaining military forces to head of the Navy, Grand Admiral Doenitz.Doenitz had affirmed his desire to continue fighting the allies at the time he took on command but quickly realised military forces were shattered and incapable of putting up a sustained resistance as much of Germany had been occupied.Before the announcement armies in the south of Germany, the Netherlands and Denmark had capitulated and earlier on the day of the surrender German forces in Norway also put down their arms.The Second World War would last another three months as the allies continued to fight against Japan, eventually using nuclear blasts on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August of 1945 to force a surrender.