Japanese foreign affairs minister Mamoru Shigemitsu signs the Japanese Surrender aboard the USS Missouri on Sep. 2, 1945

Approximately 90.000 German soldiers surrendered after the battle of Stalingrad in February 1943. Some say that of them half died on the march to Siberian prison camps, and nearly as many died in captivity; only about 6,000 survived and returned home after 1953

Sometimes you need to know when to surrender to avoid unnecessary losses

Faced with an overwhelming force the general was forced to surrender