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Unconditional surrender, a memoir of the last days of the Third Reich and the Dönitz administration, Walter Lüdde-Neurath ; foreword by Jürgen Rohwer ; translation by Geoffrey Brooks

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Walter Lüdde-Neurath ; foreword by Jürgen Rohwer ; translation by Geoffrey Brooks

a memoir of the last days of the Third Reich and the Dönitz administration

The administration of Karl D?nitz, head of state and supreme commander of Germany's armed forces following Hitler's suicide, marks a key period in World War II. Author Walter L?dde-Neurath served at D?nitz's side through the final, chaotic weeks of fighting, the infighting among the Nazi elite as they tried to save themselves, and the negotiations for surrender. With this memoir L?dde-Neurath provides an insider's view of what happened as the Third Reich collapsed around them

Sect. 1. Walter L?dde-Neurath : the D?nitz government, the last days of the Third Reich -- Author's foreword, 1948 -- Author's foreword to the 2nd ed., 1953 -- Author's foreword to the 3rd ed., 1964 -- Autumn 1944 to April 1945 : impressions at F?hrer-Headquarters -- D?nitz leaves Berlin -- An impossible job : defend the northern region -- Regarding the succession to Hitler -- Reich President by signal -- The military situation on 2 May 1945 -- Realisation and decision -- Partial capitulation in the North -- Unconditional surrender -- The Fate of the occupied territories -- The unpolitical cabinet -- Himmler's dismissal -- Abdication? -- East or West? -- The Allied Control Commission -- The arrest of the caretaker Reich government -- Sect. 2. Walter Baum : the D?nitz government in modern academic research -- The struggle for the succession -- Making the D?nitz government -- The capitulation -- Finis Germaniae? The Reich as a problem of international and constitutional law