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Party's End. British tanks and infantry rounded up smaller fry, seizing arrogant Wehrmacht officers' sidearms, ending the gay parties that had been held in the Admiral's schoolhouse compound. Soldiers from Norway and Denmark strode about Flensburg, boasting: "We were never beaten." A British sergeant knocked one of them down, and said: "Well, you've been beaten now." Disarmed marines were marched through the streets, still singing We Sail against England...
G.S.C. survived World War I with scarcely a bobble. The Allies considerately allowed a small (100,000) German army to guard Germany against internal disorder. G.S.C. smoothly converted this "police force" into a miniature Wehrmacht, complete with all the old organizational ideas and hospitable to new ones...
...RADIO), hundreds of miles behind the last fighting fronts, some 75,000 Germans downed arms. In one area north of Hamburg where 300 SS marines stubbornly holed up in a forest to fight on, the British with exquisite finesse declared the area out of bounds for Britons, and ordered Wehrmacht troops to deal with their countrymen...
...Germans of the Middle Army Group in Czechoslovakia and northern Austria ignored surrender orders. Under command of Field Marshal Ferdinand Schörner (wanted by the Russians as a war criminal) and Colonel General Otto Woehler, the Wehrmacht stumbled blindly on, fought, then despairingly submitted or fled. By week's end the Russians had rounded up 1,230,000. Still at liberty were Schörner and Woehler...
...plete contrast to his previous attitude, which had always been: 'We will fight to the last tip of the German Reich.' "What reasons motivated his change of heart no one knows. He expressed the fact that his confidence was shaken. He had lost confidence in the Wehrmacht quite a while ago, saying that he had not gotten true reports, that bad news had been withheld from him. This afternoon he said that he was losing confidence in the Waffen SS, for the first time. He had always counted on the Waffen SS as elite troops which would never...