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Field Marshal Montgomery (second from the left) greets the German delegation (L to R – Admiral von Friedeburg, General Kinzel and Rear Admiral Wagner).. On 4 May 1945, at 18:30 British Double Summer Time, at Lüneburg Heath, south of Hamburg, British Field Marshal Sir Bernard Montgomery accepted the unconditional surrender of the German forces in the Netherlands, northwest Germany including ...
Lüneburg Heath (German: Lüneburger Heide, pronounced [ˈlyːnəbʊʁɡɐ ˈhaɪ̯də]) is a large area of heath, geest, and woodland in the northeastern part of the state of Lower Saxony in northern Germany. It forms part of the hinterland for the cities of Hamburg, Hanover and Bremen and is named after the town of Lüneburg.
On 4 May 1945, German forces acting under instruction from the Dönitz Government and facing the British and Canadian 21st Army Group, signed an act of surrender at Lüneburg Heath to come into effect on 5 May.
Captain Derek Knee (22 October 1922 – 18 March 2014) was a British Army intelligence officer of the British Army during World War II.He was the interpreter and translator for Field Marshal Sir Bernard Montgomery, commander of the Anglo-Canadian 21st Army Group, at the German surrender at Lüneburg Heath in Germany on 3 May 1945.
Instrument of surrender received by Field-Marshal Montgomery at Lüneburg Heath: Hungary 25th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS Hunyadi (1st Hungarian) and 26th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (2nd Hungarian), near Lake Attersee: c. 29,606 (19,106 in the 25th, and 10,500 in the 26th) Józef Grassy May 3–5 May 5 Part of Army Group H Germany
German surrender at Lüneburg Heath: At Bernard Montgomery's headquarters, Wehrmacht forces in northwestern Germany, the Netherlands and Denmark surrendered to the Allies, effective at 8:00 a.m. on May 5. [1] [9] The Seventh United States Army captured Innsbruck, Salzburg and Berchtesgaden. [11]
It refers to the land campaign starting with the 6th June landings in Normandy and ended with Field Marshal Montgomery taking the German military surrender of all German forces in the Netherlands, Northwest Germany and Denmark on Lüneburg Heath in Northwest Germany.
Montgomery (right) and von Friedeburg signing the German surrender at Lüneburg Heath, 4 May 1945. In early May 1945, von Friedeburg was ordered by Dönitz to negotiate the surrender to the Western Allied forces.