Word: flensburger
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...Admiral of Flensburg. The chief instrument and executor of German surrender policy was Grand Admiral Karl Dbnitz. In retrospect, his rise to this eminence of disaster was revealing...
...last, Donitz himself was apparently in British custody. But for days his Radio Flensburg had broadcast a fantastic hash of surrender announcements and anti-Russian propaganda...
Broadcasting "the last High Command communique of this war," the voice of Flensburg first saluted the German troops on the Vistula who had "gallantly" fought the Red Army "to the very last." To their commander went the last German decoration of World War II: diamonds for the oak leaves (with swords) on his Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross. The voice continued...
...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...