Unconditional Surrender: The Last Days of the Third Reich and the Dönitz Administration

The administration of Karl Dönitz, head of state and supreme commander of Germany s armed forces following Hitler s suicide, marks a key period in World War II. Author Walter Lüdde-Neurath served at Dönitz s side through the final, chaotic weeks of fighting, the infighting among the Nazi elite as they tried to save themselves, and the negotiations for surrender. With this memoir Lüdde-Neurath provides an insider s view of what happened as the Third Reich collapsed around them.