Word: flensburger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...corner of northwestern Germany the German war spirit still throve. Around the red brick Marine & Signal School in Flensburg milled armed German soldiers and sailors. Sometimes they drilled stiffly, sometimes they sang Wir Fahren Gegen Engeland and the Horst Wessel Lied...
...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...
...Radio Flensburg capped its performance with an astounding broadcast in the name of Field Marshal Ernst Busch, one of several German officers designated to assist in the Wehrmacht's dissolution...
Overwhelmed by the chores of victory, General Eisenhower's headquarters finally dispatched a general to Flensburg to supervise the broadcasts. In the long run, this muddle was probably a good thing for the conquerors: Radio Flensburg's true voice had plenty of time to speak the German piece so clearly that none could mistake...