Word: friedeberg
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Minutes later Admiral Hans Georg von Friedeberg, who had sat hollow-eyed and aloof during his fourth surrender of World War II, excused himself from his personal guard, locked a toilet door behind him, and killed himself with poison. Later, his body was photographed where it lay under a picture of Doenitz...
...General Admiral Hans Georg von Friedeberg (head of the German Navy since Admiral Doenitz became Reichsführer) to reply. Grey-faced and grim, that scion of a long line of Prussian officers asked permission to surrender three German armies-not those facing Montgomery to the north but those facing the Russians to the east...
...that plain red building in Reims, Supreme Commander Eisenhower had established advanced headquarters. To it came the German negotiators, headed by Colonel General Alfred Jodl, last chief of staff of the dissolving German Army, and General Admiral Hans Georg von Friedeberg, last commander in chief of the dissolved German Navy...
...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...
Salvos. Late in the grey, gusty afternoon of the next day, while Montgomery was in staff conference, word reached him of Friedeberg's return. He let the Germans wait-ten minutes, 20 minutes. Then, still deliberate, he walked to his van and sent for Friedeberg. The German commander came, puffing a cigaret to its finger-burning end. A few moments later he emerged, his shoulders drooping. With the others he walked quickly to a brown tent with two of its sides rolled up. They sat stiffly at a plain trestle table covered with a grey blanket...
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