Ebook: Unconditional Surrender: the Memoir of the Last Days of the Third Reich and the Donitz

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Timetable of Events; Foreword by Jürgen Rohwer, 20 I 0; SECTION I Walter Lüdde-Neurath: The Dönitz Government -- the Last Days of the Third Reich; Author's Foreword, 1948; Author's Foreword to the Second Edition, 1953; Publisher's Foreword to the Third Edition, 1964; Chapter 1 Autumn 1944 to April 1945: Impressions atFiihrer-Headquarters; Chapter 2 Dönitz Leaves Berlin; Chapter 3 An Impossible Job -- Defend the Northern Region; Chapter 4 Regarding the Succession to Hitler; Chapter 5 Reich President by Signal.;This is the first English-language translation of a crucial memoir of the dying days of Hitler's Third Reich. Walter Ludde-Neurath was an accomplished officer, who served with a variety of torpedo boats and destroyers, slowly rising through the ranks. In September 1944 he was selected to be the new adjutant to Grand Admiral Donitz. He enjoyed a close relationship with Donitz over what proved to be a crucial period: the formation and dissolution of the Flensburg Government (named after the headquarters Donitz was using at the time of the appointment). The memoir details the discussions within th.