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man foreign minister, Count Ludwig
Scherin Won Korisgk, to relinquish
his post because the protectorate no
longer was part of the German
Reich and not included in the Ger
man defense zone"
Last night Nazi Production Min
lister Albert Spear had frankly
stated to the Germans in a broad
cast that the German nation lis
defeated"
| Dispatches from Stockholm and
Copenhagen itself said the Nazi grip
on Denmark plainly was loosening
Among reports on the whereabouts
of Nazi leaders was one from Stock.
holm that Doenitz had fed to Kie'
and that he, Won Krosigk, Werner
Best, German Minister to Denmark
and Josef Terboven, Nazi commits
sioner for Norway, we're in con.
ference.
The Swedish Central News Agen-
cy quoted usually reliable sources
as saying that Doenitz and Marshal
Montgomery would meet or already
were meeting at Kiel or in Denmark
and that Best, Terboven and Col
Gen. Georg Lindemann, Nazi com.
mander in Denmark, possibly were
| there. Reuters also carried a re.
port to this effect.
Added to these was the Alton.
tigningen report that capitulatior
negotiations were under way be.
tween Doenitz and Marshal Mont.
gomery at Flensburg.
But the BIC said it had reliable
information the Doenitz govern.
ment had moved to Copenhagen
and that Doenitz was there A sim.
liar report was carried in a broad.
cast attributed by Allied monitors
to the Luxembourg radio.
New Offers Reported.
The Paris radio said both Doenitz
and Heinrich Himmler. chief of the
Gestapo, had approached the Allies
again. offering to surrender what is
left of the German Army to Britain
Russia and the United States.
Tired and broken German rem.
nants thrashed about hopelessly in
that part of Germany proper still
in Nazi hands, which consisted OF
narrowing pockets with a total area
no bigger than Pennsylvania. With
in that part of the Reich disintegra-
ton was reported so swift and the
general situation so chaotic that
there might be no need to negotiate
formal surrender.
What fighting there was on this
332d day since the Normandy inva-
sion-it was becoming increasingly
difficult to call it a war-was mostly
on the soil of Austria and Czecho-
slovakia and in the waters off the
east coast of Denmark, where Allied
bombers slaughtered Nazi troops
trying to flee by all manner of over
crowded craft.
Churchill in London.
Prime Minister Churchill was alb
sent from Commons yesterday
arousing immediate speculation, but
today No. 10 Downing street said
Mr.. Churchill was in London and
that there was nothing to all these
rumors" that he had left for Ger
many.
OF Germany proper, all that the
Allies could not call conquered was
little bulge in the EIbe River area
east of Magdeburg, and tighten
ing salient around the last of the
northwest German cities and the
Schleswig- Holstein Peninsula which
leads to Denmark.
These either we're corridors of re-
treat or pockets of surrender-sur-
render at so vast rate that the Al
lies were losing count.
Speer told the German people in
a broadcast last night that lit lies
with our enemies whether they wish
to grant the German people the
possibilities that lie open to the
German nation, which is defeated
but has always been a decent op-
ponent."
This was interpreted in Stock
holm, dispatch said, las a signal
that general capitulation of the
Germans can be expected very SOON
The Nazis continued to yield
troops under the terms of the I'M
conditional surrender in North Italy
and Western Austria. Fighting
ceased west of the Isonzo River
where ,Nazi Gen. Schlemmer sur
rendered his 10000 pocketed troops
in Liguria, abandoning his previous
defiance of the surrender order.
There was some isolated firing in
Bremen Pass areas where the
United States 10th Mountain Divi-
sion was operating, but the extent
of this resistance was not immedi-
ately assayed
Outside of Germany proper there
now were only four principal peck.
cts in the stolen lands, and there
was only the question of how long
it would take these commanders tt
follow the example of the Naz
command in North Italy and West.
ern Austria.
The pocket in Western Austria nc
longer was tenable, but Field Mar.
shall Albert Kesselring's troops
fought sporadically as the Amer.
leans drove within Z miles of Linz
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