Word: doenitz
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ripples on Flensburger Forde glittered in the bright sunlight as Grand Admiral Karl Doenitz, last Führer of the Third Reich, marched stiffly up the gangplank of the Patria, an old German liner housing a SHAEF mission. His long blue coat whipped at his knees, and his aides followed him in single file...
...Allied cameraman got a picture, released last week by the British, of Doenitz and a naval aide walking past a German guard at the door (see cut). Another correspondent talked his way in. He failed to see Doenitz but found Krosigk more amenable...
Prime Minister Churchill left the gate open: he told the aroused House of Commons that he preferred to think of the Doenitz regime as an "administration rather than a government." For the long term, he added, Germans should administer Germany under Allied supervision (see below...
...same day, a correspondent sat SHAEF was told that the men of Flensburg had been put on a "seize and freeze" basis. Another SHAEF account said that they were under arrest. In other words, Doenitz and his henchmen faced incarceration and, possibly, punishment as war criminals. Meanwhile, at least until the Allies could find other administrators, Grand Admiral Karl Doenitz remained, in the eyes of defeated Germans, and to the alarm of Russia, the acknowledged governor of Germany...
...Alfred Rosenberg, the Nazi Reich's chief mythologist and "Director of Philosophic Outlook," was found by the British. His hiding place: a hospital bed within a stone's throw of Admiral Doenitz' headquarters in Flensburg (see above). Rosenberg's presence strengthened suspicions that Himmler may have also taken refuge somewhere near Doenitz...