Post-Surrender Combat

I would like to humbly request a list fully summarizing all notable combat events after the German surrender to the Soviets on May 8th 1945 in the Western theater of war. This could be either the western or eastern front, and does not necessarily need to include German forces.

This would not include werewolf or 'forest brother' actions; but fully fledged military units not surrendering after the cease-fire.

The date of the last U-Boat to surrender (U-977) is known, but what about for land units? I know the line blurs, but some information would be very helpful.

 

These come to mind.

1) is written about in Devils Guard and mentions that soldiers from at least the Army and W-SS the survivers from descimated units and such-came together and were on top of some Mountain when the Russians sent a huge armed force into the valley below and tried to get the Germans to surrender. Many of them rejected the offer but than an Army Officer led his or mostof his men as well as any others-down into the valley to surrender and wound up being slaughtered by the Russians. In turn when any Russian approached-the men on the mountain fired at them. The Russians sent in fighters to strafe the Germans positions but were shot own by an Army Artillery unit. The Germans also blew up an overhang which fell on top of more Russians leaving a sort of "Plateau" where more Russians were stranded and those Russians were picked off with Artillery and MG-fire.

Another case of men surrendering after the armistace was a small detachment of either LW or KM personnel who were somewhere near Norway or Greenland? who had been monitoring and sending Weather forcasts and such. They surrendered either weeks or months after everyone else-surrendering to a Norwegian Army Officer if Im not mistaken?

 

Could you please be more specific?

Any dates here?

 

Hello SittingDuckBE,

In one of OSPREYS books/mags titled "Waffen SS ...." there are two or three account of Waffen SS members not surrendering in the Yugoslav area but hiding out and reaching Austria in late 1945 and if I recall correctly one troop made it back as late as in 1946.

Regards
Kruska

 

The book didn't specify exact names of places except for the COuntry these men were in when the war ended. I don't have my book handy to check for the name of the Country but was in all probability somewhere near Rumania or Hungary-Czecholslovakia-Yugoslavia?? Been a few years too long since I last read the book.

I don't off hand know exact dates of when the Germans who made up that small Weather Detachment but I think these were the men at Spitzbergen (SP?) Anyway, try Googling Germans who surrendered months after the war and the answer is bound to come up for you.

Best regards-C.