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A German soldier was stationed at the entrance gate in No. . With his rifle butt, he ensured that the prisoners got all their measured rations, and that no one stole too much. A glimpse of Sam s humanity. The bird came as a gift. Morten, eight years old at the time, remembers that he managed to smuggle in a food package for the prisoners under the fence. As a thank you and gift, he received a beautiful bird made of steel wire. The Russians were artists with wire and wood.
When the Germans forced the family out of Nybuvegen in January to take over moible number data everything, an H symbol in the dust on the cars. Then mother Frida got angry. It was not wise to demonstrate like that. Nerve games in Central Europe Out on the battlefield, things happened quickly now. On May Stalin had been outraged that German generals had come to Montgomery s headquarters on the Lüneburgheden to surrender the German forces in Holland, Denmark and north west Germany.

But note, not Norway. The British general sent the Germans to Reims where the headquarters of General Dwight D. Eisenhower was located. The Germans hoped that they would be able to negotiate a separate peace with the Western powers. Since the UK or the US wanted to alienate Stalin, they included a Soviet liaison general in the negotiating delegation. On May, Eisenhower s chief of staff, Bedell Smith, threatened to seal off the front if General Jodl did not sign an unwilling capitulation before midnight.
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