4 May 1945 A.D. ADM Donitz’s Envoy Sign Surrender Documents at Field Marshal Montgomery’s Headquarters—Surrender of German Force in Holland, Denmark and Northern Germany
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May 1945 A.D. ADM Donitz’s Envoy Sign Surrender Documents at Field
Marshal Montgomery’s Headquarters—Surrender of German Force in Holland, Denmark
and Northern Germany
Editors. “Donitz sends
envoys...” This Day in U.S. Military
History. N.d. https://thisdayinusmilhist.wordpress.com/2014/05/04/may-4/. Accessed 1 May 2015.
1945 – Donitz sends
envoys to the headquarters of Field Marshal Montgomery, at Luneburg Heath, and
they sign an agreement, at 1820 hrs, for the surrender of German forces in
Holland, Denmark and northern Germany. The Germans also agree to the Allied
demand that German submarines should be surrendered rather than scuttled — in
the German naval tradition. The surrender becomes effective on May 5th.
Meanwhile, in continuing fighting to the south, Salzburg is captured by
American forces. Other units push into Czechoslovakia toward Pilsen. German
forces conduct rearguard actions, in northern Germany, in Czechoslovakia and
Austria, as the bulk of the German forces attempt to disengage and reach the
Anglo-American lines.
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