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Unconditional Surrender: The Last Days of the Third Reich and the Donitz Administration
The administration of Karl Dönitz, 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.
256 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 2010
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May 11, 2016
The author was the aide to German Admiral Donitz. As the war against Germany in WWII drew to a close Hitler reassessed who he wanted to take over after he was gone. He picked someone unexpected, the admiral in charge of the submarine fleet. Hitler knew he would do whatever it took to take care of Germany, which was true. Donitz worked immediately towards the goal of ending the war to save as many lives as possible. Part of that meant stalling as much as possible for time to get as many people as possible into west Germany since they knew Russia was going to control east Germany and they expected them to be brutal exterminators of German survivors (which came true for Germans east of the river Oder). This is the inside story of a government headed by Doniz that lasted just under a month and surrendered to the Allies.
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