Instrument of Surrender explained

An instrument of surrender is a surrendering document of a military conflict, as those documents are legal instruments. Some such documents are:

World War II

• Japanese Instrument of Surrender
• German Instrument of Surrender
• Armistice of Cassibile

Other conflicts

• Argentine surrender in the Falklands War 1982
• Pakistani Instrument of Surrender (1971) at the end of the Bangladesh Liberation War