XPost: aalt.war.world-war-two, soc.history.war.misc, rec.aviation.military   
   From: keithwillshaw@gmail.com   
      
   On 09/05/2023 18:58, a425couple wrote:   
   > Admiral Karl Dönitz is arrested in Flensburg, Germany by British soldiers   
   > on May 23, 1945. Courtesy of the Imperial War Museum.   
   >   
   > Curiously, Dönitz and his administration were allowed to remain in   
   > Flensburg for another two weeks. They spent their time holding cabinet   
   > meetings in which they debated meaningless matters of policy such as   
   > whether portraits of Hitler should be removed. Dönitz was finally   
   > arrested by the allies on May 23.   
      
   Germany was in chaos and the British Army had moved on to take Hamburg   
   so as long as they were happy to play their Bureaucratic games let it be so.   
      
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