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British and U.S. army commanders in the west had no choice but to accept the "field surrenders" of German armies-a process climaxed by the surrender of The Netherlands, Denmark and northwestern Germany to Field Marshal Montgomery. The fact that U.S. armies had been deliberately halted in their advances toward Berlin and Prague, so that the Red Army could take them, was so much grist for the German mill...
...narrowing circle of fatal fire. From Hamburg Doenitz broadcast his only policy: "It is my first task to save the German people from destruction by the Bolsheviks.... As long as the British and Americans hamper us from reaching this end, we shall fight and defend ourselves." Doenitz moved to Denmark. He had dismissed from his rump Government (the personnel of which was not disclosed) Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop. As rump Foreign Minister he named mild-mannered, Oxford-educated Count Lutz Schwerin von Krosigk, 58, Hitler's back-seat Minister of Finance, Krosigk echoed his Führer: peace...
...hour later General Admiral von Friedeberg came back, red-eyed. He had been weeping. Monty made his take-it-or-leave-it offer: unconditional surrender of all the forces facing his armies in Germany, Denmark and The Netherlands. "If you do not agree to the surrender, then I will go on with the war and I will be delighted to do so." Friedeberg agreed to return next day with a decision...
...Again on April 9, 1940, when the invasion of Denmark and Norway began (three weeks later the British were driven from Namsos...
...cases of Denmark, Norway, Yugoslavia and Greece, the German margin of superiority was immense. The one exception to the Germans' superiority in weapons was the fighter planes of the R.A.F. Although few in number, they kept Hitler from two decisive triumphs. They maintained local control of the skies over Dunkirk for three saving days. And they stopped the Luftwaffe in its tracks...