Unconditional Surrender: A Memoir of The Last Days of the Third Reich and the Donitz Administration

by Ludde-Neurath, Walter

• ISBN13: 9781591148944
• ISBN10: 1591148944
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-10-15
• Publisher: Naval Inst Pr

Summary

The administration of Karl Dnitz, 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 Ldde-Neurath served at Dnitz'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 Ldde-Neurath provides an insider's view of what happened as the Third Reich collapsed around them.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	p. vii
Timetable of Events	p. ix
Foreword	p. xiii
Walter Lüdde-Neurath: The Dönitz Government -the Last Days of the Third Reich	p. 1
Author's Foreword, 1948	p. 3
Author's Foreword to the Second Edition, 1953	p. 5
Publisher's Foreword to the Third Edition, 1964	p. 7
Autumn 1944 to April 1945: Impressions at Führer-Headquarters	p. 9
Dönitz Leaves Berlin	p. 19
An Impossible Job - Defend the Northern Region	p. 25
Regarding the Succession to Hider	p. 29
Reich President by Signal	p. 35
The Military Situation on 2 May 1945	p. 39
Realisation and Decision	p. 43
Partial Capitulation in the North	p. 49
Unconditional Surrender	p. 55
The Fate of the Occupied Territories	p. 61
The Unpolitical Cabinet	p. 67
Himmler's Dismissal	p. 73
Abdication?	p. 79
East or West?	p. 83
The Allied Control Commission	p. 89
The Arrest of the Caretaker Reich Government	p. 93
Walter Baum: The Dönitz Government in Modern Academic Research	p. 99
The Struggle for the Succession	p. 101
Making the Dönitz Government	p. 109
The Capitulation	p. 113
Finis Germaniae? The Reich as a Problem of International and Constitutional Law	p. 121
Appendices	p. 125
Notes	p. 163
Index	p. 183
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