Dönitz Karl - Unconditional Surrender: the Memoir of the Last Days of the Third Reich and the Donitz

Karl Dnitz in the witness box at the International Military Tribunal, Nuremberg, 1946.

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Authorised translation of the German edition, published by
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Copyright Muster-Schmidt Verlag, 1964

This edition Pen & Sword Books Ltd., 2010

Foreword copyright Jrgen Rohwer, 2010

UK edition: ISBN 978-1-84832-568-5

US edition: ISBN 978-1-59114-894-4

PUBLISHING HISTORY

Regierung Dnitz: die letzten Tage des Dritten Reiches was originally published
in 1950 by Muster-Schmidt Verlag (Gttingen). A second edition was released in
1953. In 1964, following the release of new documentary
evidence, a third expanded edition was published with supplementary
material by Professor Walter Baum, which is included in this new
edition. This is the first English-language translation and includes a
new foreword by Jrgen Rohwer and a new plate section.

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Walter Ldde-Neurath was born on 15 June 1914 at Hningen, a small village in Alsace. He passed his Abitur from his high grammar school at Grlitz in Eastern Saxonia in 1932. The following year he joined the Reichsmarine as an officer candidate. After training he was commissioned as Leutnant zur See in October 1936. He served mostly in torpedo boats and destroyers. From March 1939 to September 1941 he was torpedo officer on the newly commissioned destroyer Karl Galster. From the beginning of the war to the invasion of Norway the Karl Galster was involved in laying the Westwall defensive minefields and then several offensive minefields off the east coast of England, and also escorted capital ships during some forays into the northern North Sea and in June/July into the Arctic and the Iceland-Faeroes Passage. In September the Karl Galster was transferred first to Cherbourg with other destroyers and then to Brest and participated in mine-laying operations in the Bristol Channel and forays against shipping off the south coast of England. At the end of November there was an action with the British 5th Destroyer Flotilla, in which the destroyer HMS