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2011-Today Chief of the Army Staff and Commander of the Canadian Army (Canada)
Canadian Army
First Canadian Army
1945 After threatening Seyss-Inquart with prosecution for war crimes, Smith successfully negotiated for the provision of food to the suffering Dutch civilian population in the cities in the west of the country and opened discussions for the...
...peaceful and complete German capitulation in the Netherlands to the First Canadian Army, which occurred on 5 May.
1945 Smith had to conduct another set of surrender negotiations, that of the German armed forces, in May 1945. Smith met with the representatives of the German High Command (the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht), Colonel General Alfred Jodl and...
...General-Admiral Hans-Georg von Friedeburg.
1945 Strong acted as an interpreter. Smith took a hard line by threatening that unless terms were accepted, the Allies would seal the front, which would force the remaining Germans into the hands of the Red Army, but he made some concessions on a...

...ceasefire before the surrender came into effect.

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1945 Strong acted as an interpreter. Smith took a hard line by threatening that unless terms were accepted, the Allies would seal the front, which would force the remaining Germans into the hands of the Red Army, but he made some concessions on a...

1945 On 7 May, Smith cosigned the surrender document along with Soviet General Susloparov, both of whom represented the Allies, and Jodl, who represented Germany. The French representative, Major General Francois Sevez, signed as a witness.