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Old April 30th, 2008, 01:49 PM
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Default Re: Surrender: The last Germans to give up

There you go:

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LAST SURRENDER
The last Wehrmacht soldiers to surrender were a small company on the tiny Channel Island of Minquiers and a group of eleven soldiers on the island of Spitzbergen. A French fishing boat, skippered by Lucian Marie, approached the island of Minquiers and anchored nearby. A fully armed German soldier approached and asked for help saying 'We've been forgotten by the British, perhaps no one on Jersey told them we were here, I want you to take us over to England, we want to surrender'. This was on the 23rd of May, 1945, three weeks after the war ended!


"The 11 German soldiers of top secret Operation Haudegen sat tight for four months on the Norwegian island of Spitzbergen, eating canned rations, fending off polar bears, and finally surrendering in September. "

The 11 at Spitzbergen surrendered almost 4 months later. We discussed the Channel Islands in another thread a few months back in the WWII general forum,

The Channel Islands
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