ETO Activities May45

ETO Activities May45 AV pan across bombed Berlin skyline. VS ruined Berlin streets inc. burned-out Reichstag and Sports Palace; civilians and military vehicles on streets. 05:40:27 St. Nazaire, France: AV pan across bomb-damaged port; banner across street welcoming Allies ‘? aux Alliees Vainqueurs’; VS German submarine pens, MS only U-boat not destroyed in bombing. 05:41:02 Ijmuiden, Holland, 25May45: surrendered German troops board transport boats for home, searched for food and stolen items. Canadian Provo units search German troops returning home by land, remove all items not standard issue; CUs alarm clocks, radio, typewriter. Causeway across Zeider Zee choked by departing Germans w/ horse-drawn carts. 05:41:47 Flensburg near Danish border, acting German government formally dissolved by Allies 23May45, Adm. Doenitz and senior officers arrested and led away w/ hands on head. Doenitz photographed w/ Albert Speer and Alfred Jodl. Bodies of von Friedeburg and Himmler after suicides. 05:42:58 AVs Oslo, Norway; Air Commodore Darrol arrives to accept surrender of German ground forces under Colonel Kaser ?; Darrol refuses to shake Kaser’s hand; German troops await return to Germany. Norwegian civilians crowded into city square cheer arrival of British prior to King Haakon’s return. 05:44:05 Nazi puppet premier Vidkun Quisling appears before judge for preliminary trial hearing in Oslo court, 26May45, charged w/ treason, returned to jail. 05:44:37 Floating Bridge M-4 Tank crosses pontoon bridge over wide river. VS construction of pontoon bridge by troops. Midsection of bridge floated upstream; damaged pontoon replaced; AV bridge in place, tank crosses. WW2; German Occupation; Liberation; War criminals; War Crimes Trials;