Weidling announces Berlin's surrender

The Berlin Surrender Announcement Scene is the scene when Helmuth Weidling announces Germany's surrender and orders all military to cease fire.

In Downfall
The scene start with Peter Kranz and his friends arriving at a street where they see a dead woman, leaning inside an APC. Focus switch to Weidling announcing the surrender of Berlin on a recording machine. The announcement record is broadcasted around Berlin on trucks with hailers. One such truck turned around a corner and come within sight of Peter, who then run towards the direction the truck is heading. He turns out to be running towards his home. On the entrance door to his apartment building he sees a hangman and a few SS soldiers walking out. He heads towards his house on the apartment to find his mother dead on the floor and his father hanged.

In the Parodies
While not as commonly used as the other scenes in Downfall, this scene has been used by some Untergangers in their parodies, especially if it calls for Weidling making an announcement for an event, such as in FegeleintheLostTapes' Super Hitler Kart and Soalric's The Bunker Games. The announcement truck itself is parodied in voice-over parodies with the Downfall cast driving it.

Trivia

 * The dead woman seen in the disabled Sd.Kfz. 251 (it's actually a close variant, Sd.Kfz.250/3) is supposed to be a Swedish frontnurse, who got killed in a breakout attempt over the Grossbeeren-Brücke, between 1-2 of May 1945 in Berlin.