This is a timeline showing surrenders of the various fighting groups of the

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forces that also marked ending time of

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Table of surrenders

Number of soldiers surrendering

{, class="wikitable" !Ethnicity/nationality !Approximate number of
soldiers surrendered , - , Japanese , style="text-align:right;", 9,779,248 , - , Germans , style="text-align:right;", 4,889,905 , - , Italians , style="text-align:right;", 429,600 , - , Russians , style="text-align:right;", 70,000
(including 50,000 Cossacks) , - , Foreign-born Germans (''Volksdeutsche)'' , style="text-align:right;", 37,000 , - , Croatians , style="text-align:right;", 33,050 , - , Other foreigners in the SS , style="text-align:right;", 31,811 , - , Hungarians , style="text-align:right;", 29,786 , - , Galician Ukrainians , style="text-align:right;", 25,000 , - , Latvians , style="text-align:right;", 19,500 , - , Slovenes , style="text-align:right;", 11,400 , - , Estonians , style="text-align:right;", 10,000 , - , Dutch , style="text-align:right;", 6,956 , - , Flemish , style="text-align:right;", 6,000 , - , Various Soviet Union people , style="text-align:right;", 5,000 , - , Indians , style="text-align:right;", 2,000 , - , Montenegrins , style="text-align:right;", 2,000 , - , Georgians , style="text-align:right;", 226 , - , French , style="text-align:right;", 30 , - , Total , style="text-align:right;", 15,388,513

References

Timelines of military conflicts Chronology of World War II