page_title: Wendisch Evern
section_title: Recent history (Second World War)
hierarchical_section_title: Wendisch Evern / Recent history (Second World War)
caption_attribution_description: English: The Allied Campaign in North-west Europe, 6 June 1944 - 7 May 1945 Victory in the West April - May 1945: Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery signing the Instrument of Surrender of German forces in North-West Europe at Luneberg Heath. Français&#160;: La campagne militaire des Alliés dans le Nord-Ouest de l'Europe (6 juin 1944 - 7 mai 1945)Victoire à l'Ouest&#160;: le 4 mai 1945, le maréchal Montgomery signe le texte de reddition des forces armées allemandes dans le Nord-Ouest de l'Europe à Lunebourg&#160;; de gauche à droite, autour de la table, le Konteradmiral Gerhard Wagner (Kriegsmarine), le Generaladmiral Hans-Georg von Friedeburg, commandant en chef de la Kriegsmarine, le Field marshal Bernard Montgomery (British Army)&#160;; de dos à droite, le General der Infanterie Eberhard Kinzel (Wehrmacht Heer&#160;: l'Armée de terre de la Wehrmacht).
context_page_description: Wendisch Evern is a municipality in the district of Lüneburg, in Lower Saxony, Germany.
context_section_description: On 4 May 1945 on the Timeloberg hill at the edge of Deutsch Evern a German delegation under the command of Hans-Georg von Friedeburg signed a document in the presence of British Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery for the unconditional surrender of the three German armies operating in Northwest Germany. This went into force on 5 May at 7 a.m. With the signing of the surrender agreement the Second World War in Northwest Germany came to an end. After the war a monument was erected by the British on what they now called Victory Hill. The monument was dismantled in 1958 and rebuilt at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. Today the spot lies in a military out-of-bounds area and is not accessible. In 1995 another monument was erected on the edge of the Timeloberg, outside the out-of-bounds area.
  After Heinrich Himmler committed suicide in May 1945 his body was supposed to have been interred on the Wendisch-Evern Training Area at an unknown spot.
caption: The German surrender is signed at the Timeloberg
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