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
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 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 f...