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Inside the school were Grand Admiral Karl Doenitz, "the last Reichsführer," and his ill-assorted but determined ministers-Count Lutz Schwerin von Krosigk, acting premier, foreign minister and minister of finance; Franz Seldte, labor minister; Herbert Backe, agriculture; Julius Dorpmüller, transportation; and Albert Speer, Hitler's master of production. All but Dorpmüller were hyperactive Nazis...
...correspondent who wished to interview Doenitz asked the SHAEF general on the Patria for help. The general said that he did not care to ask Doenitz' permission for the interview, but wished the correspondent luck. The correspondent and a German captain, who spoke English, then made their way to the headquarters gate but got no further. German guards sprang to attention, rifles at the ready...
...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...