End of World War II: At 11:01 p.m. peace began

With star director Wim Wenders, the Federal Foreign Office recalls the end of World War II. Wenders' short film leads to a school in Champagne that wrote history.

In the last days of the war, courageous German resistance fighters achieved the warless handover of some German cities, including in Brandenburg. Konrad Wolf's film was the occasion for a search for traces.

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The Second World War initiated by Germany ends in 1945 with the surrender in a school in Reims. Star director Wim Wenders made a small film about this rarely told story.

Even the students didn't know what was going on in that school.

On the night of May 6-7, 1945, at 2H41, it was within the map room of the Modern and Technical College of Reims, where the Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Forces Dwight Eisenhower had installed his headquarters, that the surrender was signed.