The German government surrendered unconditionally

At the Yalta Conference, the heads of state of the Soviet Union, the United States and Britain, Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill, successfully reached an agreement on the imposition of the unconditional surrender of fascist Germany and the complete eradication of the fascist system in order to prevent the revival of militarism and another threat to European security.

In early 1945, after the Allies crushed Hitler's Ardennes Campaign, they were preparing to cross the Rhine and advance into the heart of Germany. At this time, the German fascist ruling clique tried to make a separate peace with the United States and Britain, to concentrate its residual forces to fight the Soviet army to the end, and even to provoke a conflict between the United States, Britain and the Soviet Union to profit from it.

On 12 March, Molotov informed the U.S. and British ambassadors to the Soviet Union, Harriman and Kyle, that the Soviet government should send representatives to negotiate the surrender of German forces in northern Italy.

After refusal, Molotov sent a letter to Harriman and Kyle on 16 March, insisting that the leaders of the United States and Britain immediately stop negotiations with the representatives of Hitler's Germany and abandon all possibilities of separate negotiations with Nazi Germany in the future. From mid-April to early May 1945, the Soviets were carrying out the Battle of Berlin, and the day of the demise of German fascism was approaching, but Hitler and other fascist culprits still fantasized about avoiding unconditional surrender.

On the afternoon of April 12, US President Roosevelt died of illness in hot springs, Georgia.

When the news reached Berlin, Hitler and his propaganda minister, Goebbels, and others were ecstatic. On April 16, Hitler issued a letter to all German soldiers, declaring that the death of the President of the United States would turn the course of the world war and that God would save the Third Reich. At the same time, Hitler used 59 divisions to fight the Allies on the Western Front, and 21 divisions and 14 brigades to the Soviet-German battlefield, and did his best to hold Berlin, in a vain attempt to delay the war, fantasizing about making peace with the United States and Britain alone.

Hitler's hopes, however, were dashed. American, British, and French troops launched an offensive on the Western Front, and the Soviets were successfully advancing into Berlin. The demise of German fascism is just around the corner.

On April 20, the Soviets not only broke through the German defensive circle on the outskirts of Berlin and invaded the suburban defensive circle, but also began to attack the urban defensive circle. Berlin became a lonely city of raging war, roaring cannons, and storms. The German fascist ruling clique panicked.

On the night of the 20th, Goering and Himmler, after congratulating Hitler on his 56th birthday, left Berlin in a hurry, believing that Hitler's end was coming, and attempting to achieve a separate peace through old relations with the United States and Britain. On 23 April, Goering called Hitler from Upper Salzburg to declare in force the order hitler appoint him as heir on 29 June 1941 so that he could take over all the leadership of Germany.

When Hitler received the telegram, he was furious and immediately ordered goering to be removed from all offices and titles. Goering and his accomplices were arrested, and Goering was counting on a plane to meet Eisenhower the next day, and proposed a ceasefire on the Western Front and continued fighting with the Soviets on the Eastern Front. However, a few days later, Goering became a prisoner of the Americans in Oberland Salzburg. Himmler met with Count Bernadotte, vice president of the Swedish Red Cross, at the Swedish Embassy in Lubeck on 23 April, hoping that through his contact with the Supreme Commander of the Western Allied Forces, Eisenhower, Germany would be willing to surrender to the United States and Britain, while continuing to resist the Soviets. On April 26, the governments of the United States, the Soviet Union, and the United Kingdom completely rejected Himmler's proposal and simultaneously disclosed Bernadotte's remarks in the newspaper. When Hitler learned that Himmler had fled his base camp, he immediately ordered him expelled from the party and sent a telegram to Deniz to arrest Himmler. On 21 May, Himmler was captured by the British. Two days later, Himmler committed suicide by biting potassium cyanide and taking poison.

On 27 April, the Soviets invaded the heart of Berlin, dividing the city into three parts and approaching the Reichstag and the Reichstag from all directions. But Hitler's base camp is still dying.

On 29 April, Hitler, hiding in the bomb shelter of the presidential palace, saw that the tide was over and the end was coming, so he married his mistress of 13 years, Eva Braun, and then dictated his will. Hitler strove in his will to exonerate himself from the crime of waging a war of aggression that was "entirely needed and instigated by international politicians of Jewish descent or in the service of the Jewish Jews", called for the re-establishment of "national socialism", and appointed Admiral Dönitz as President of the German Empire and Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces, Goebbels as Chancellor and Shonel as Commander-in-Chief of the Army. At 15:30 on April 30, Hitler shot himself in a private room in the bullet shelter room, ending his life of evil and killing Eva Braun at the same time. On the afternoon of May 1, after poisoning their six children, the Goebbels ordered the guards to shoot them to death. After the Battle of Berlin, the newly formed Dönitz Fascist Cabinet and the remnants of the German army scattered elsewhere were still fighting the Allies. On May 1, the Dönitz government broadcast a letter to the German military and civilians, saying that it would continue to resist. At the same time, representatives were sent to contact the Soviet army and asked the Soviet Union to agree to a "peace negotiation" with the major powers after the establishment of a new government by Dönitz, in an attempt to end the war on the premise of guaranteeing the fascist regime and army.

After a stern refusal from the Soviet side, Dönitz turned to the Western Allies for a separate surrender. On 2 May, the new Commander-in-Chief of the German Navy, Admiral Hans Frederburg, held talks with Marshal Montgomery of the British Army. On 4 May, an agreement was reached on the surrender of all German forces to the British in the Netherlands, in northwestern Germany, in the Schleswig-Holstein region, and in Denmark.

On 5 May, U.S. General Jacob Devos accepted the surrender of German Forces Group G in Bavaria and western Austria, including the German Nineteenth Army in Forbek and Tyrol. On the same day, Fredborg came to Eisenhower's Allied headquarters at the behest of Deniz to formally raise the issue of the separate surrender of German forces in the southern region to the Allied command.

Eisenhower knew:

The Western Allies' unilateral acceptance of the German surrender was contrary to the spirit of the Yalta Conference and was not conducive to unity with the Soviet Union, and the U.S. government urgently needed to defeat fascist Germany's last ally, militaristic Japan, as soon as possible militarily. To defeat Japan, without the active participation of the Soviet Army, the US Army still had to fight for a year and a half and pay the price of 1 million casualties.

As a result, Eisenhower informed Yodel that if all battlefields of unconditional and full surrender were not signed immediately, the negotiations would end immediately, that the U.S. military would resume air combat, and that "no one who surrendered alone would be allowed to enter" the front lines of the American and British forces. Otherwise, "I will blockade the entire Allied front and use force to prevent any German refugees from entering our lines, and I will not tolerate further delays."

The Dönitz government was forced to agree to an unconditional surrender to the Allies. The defeat of German fascism was a great victory won by the Soviet Union, the United States, Britain, and other anti-fascist allies who endured countless hardships, suffered great sacrifices, and fought in unity.