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208-PU-52-P-7: Surrender of Germany, May 1945

208-PU-52-P-7: Surrender of Germany, May 1945. Doenitz Government Arrested. Allied war correspondents interview, left to right: Albert Speer, Hitler’s Minister of Production; Grand Admiral Karl Doenitz, Hitler’s successor, and Colonel General Gustav Jodl, acting Commander-in-Chief of the German Army, shortly after their arrest May 24, 1945, at Flonsburg, Germany. They were arrested by order of General of the Army Dwight D. Eisenhower, Supreme Allied Commander. Colonel General Hans-Goorg Friedeburg, who surrendered the German Navy to the Allies, was arrested at the same time but committed suicide. Office of War Information Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives. (2017/05/02).
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Caption: Surrender of Germany, May 1945. Doenitz Government Arrested. Allied war correspondents interview, left to right: Albert Speer, Hitler’s Minister of Production; Grand Admiral Karl Doenitz, Hitler’s successor, and Colonel General Gustav Jodl, acting Commander-in-Chief of the German Army, shortly after their arrest May 24, 1945, at Flonsburg, Germany. They were arrested by order of General of the Army Dwight D. Eisenhower, Supreme Allied Commander. Colonel General Hans-Goorg Friedeburg, who surrendered the German Navy to the Allies, was arrested at the same time but committed suicide. Office of War Information Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives. (2017/05/02).
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