jenny and eizabeth were small children at the time.father, despite being a poor soldier, was a good writer, and was propelled into ghost writing official reports for the allied commander general eisenhower. newsreel: nazism was crushed in the rubble of german cities. by the spring of 1945, with germany overpowered and hitler dead, the country's surrender was inevitable. the momentous tasks of drafting the surrender document fell to john counsell. he was ordered to go away and write a document in an hour—and—a—half, for the germans to sign, top secret. 0nly he and the stenographers, as he called then, the typists, should know about it. so off he went, and rather stunned, sat down at his desk. extraordinary, what a huge responsibility. yes, at first he really didn't know what to put, apart from act of military surrender. then he remembered that in the office somewhere was an old peace document that could show him the style of how these things were done, and so he sat down, and began to write, "we, the undersigned..." 0h, jenny, you say t

jenny and eizabeth were small children at the time. propelled into ghost writing official reports for the allied commander general eisenhower. newsreel: nazism was crushed in the rubble of german cities. by the spring of 1945, with germany overpowered and hitler dead, the country's surrender was inevitable. the momentous tasks of drafting the surrender document fell to john counsell. he was ordered to go away and write a document in an hour—and—a—half, for the germans to sign, top secret. only he and the stenographers, as he called then, the typists, should know about it. so off he went, and rather stunned, sat down a his desk. sat down at his desk. extraordinary, what a huge responsibility. yes, at first he really didn't know what to put, apart from act of military surrender. then he remembered that in the office somewhere was an old peace document that could show him the style of how these things were done, and so he sat down, and began and began to write, "we, the undersigned. oh, jenny, you say this because you're better at doing t