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  In the event of the German High Command or any of the forces under their control failing to act in accordance with this Act of Surrender, the Supreme Commander, Allied Expeditionary Force and the Soviet High Command will take such punitive or other action as they deem appropriate. 

Signed at Rheims at 0241 France on the 7undefined day of May, 1945.

On behalf of the German High Command.