The surrender of German panzers to British and Norwegian troops in Norway, June 1945

Mute edited footage originally shot by US Signal Corps cameramen showing men serving with Panzer-Brigade-Norwegen handing over their tanks and self-propelled guns to British army and Norwegian MILORG personnel in the Akershus district outside Oslo circa 10 June 1945 following the unconditional surrender of all German forces in Norway the previous month. The location is Trandum, the site of a former Norwegian Army training camp. The British officer seen taking the surrender of the commanding officer of Panzer-Brigade-Norwegen (and his adjutant) has been identified as Lt-Colonel O J O’Connor. The tanks seen in this film are late-mark Panzer III medium tanks armed with either short-barrelled L/24 cannon or the long-barrelled 5cm L/60 cannon and have been fitted with “Schuetzen“ 8mm armour plates as protection for their turrets and also in several instances seen here to their hull sides against hollow-charge projectiles. By 1945, the Panzer III was regarded as obsolete by Ger