Timeline for Why didn't Eisenhower personally sign Act of Military Surrender in Reims, 1945?
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| Aug 29, 2018 at 15:26 | vote | accept | Grzegorz Adam Kowalski | ||
| Aug 24, 2018 at 18:23 | comment | added | user27618 | @Trilarion, yes the insult is sending a lower ranking officer to sign the instrument of surrender in the first place. Responding by sending your own second is considered panache. | |
| Aug 24, 2018 at 11:47 | comment | added | SJuan76 | @Mast I meant an insult from the Germans if they expected Jodl to deal with Eisenhower. | |
| Aug 24, 2018 at 10:53 | comment | added | NoDataDumpNoContribution | @Mast Maybe the insult would be that sending someone of too high a rank could be considered as showing too much respect, which could be seen as showing not enough dignity, an insult against yourself. | |
| S Aug 24, 2018 at 10:43 | history | suggested | psmears | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Aug 24, 2018 at 9:12 | comment | added | Mast | Sending someone of too high a rank can be considered an insult? Did I read that correctly? It's unusual yes, but can you explain why it would be considered an insult? Honest curiousity. | |
| Aug 24, 2018 at 8:44 | review | Suggested edits | |||
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| Aug 23, 2018 at 21:18 | comment | added | Andrew is gone | One additional thing to note in support here: the WP article is explicit that relative ranks were an issue on the Berlin signing the following day - Tedder signed so that both Allied and Soviet commanders were of equivalent status. | |
| Aug 23, 2018 at 21:08 | history | answered | SJuan76 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |