The Germans who finally surrendered in World War II. ........
1on may 8, 945, with the unconditional surrender of Germany, the anti-fascist war on the European battlefield ended successfully. However, what is unknown is that there are still 1 1 forgotten Nazi soldiers at an outpost of the Third Reich in the Arctic, 2000 miles from Berlin. They lived on canned food until 1945, when they formally surrendered to a group of stunned Norwegian navies. So in a sense, Europe in World War II should be 1945. It was not until nearly 60 years later that this incredible story was finally revealed by two German veterans who are still alive.
1 1 The soldiers went to the Arctic Island.
According to Huntz Snyder, an 8 1 year-old German veteran, he was a corporal in the German navy during World War II and an expert in military operations in mountainous areas and winter, and was trained in operating meteorological equipment. /kloc-in the summer of 0/944, the German naval weather station issued a news of conscription, requesting to recruit some soldiers to engage in meteorological survey work in the cold areas of ice and snow. Ski enthusiast Snyder signed up immediately. Another 80-year-old German veteran, Krap Ka, said, "The only thing we know is that we are going to a place with ice and snow, which may mean the North Pole. I am young and like to take risks, so I participated. " So in September of 1944, a group of 1 1 German officers and men set sail from Tromso, Norway, which was occupied by the Germans, and went to Spitsbergen, Norway, east of Greenland in the Arctic. Their task is to collect local meteorological information that is vital to the Nazi war machine. The mission is so secret that the team doesn't even have an official name or military number. They have only one mission code on this trip: "Operation Broadsword".
The "weatherman" gave the Allies a headache.
Franz Salinger, a German historian and expert on World War II, explained: "In World War II, it is very important to get the meteorological information of the Arctic in advance, because the air flowing through Iceland will play a decisive role in the climate pattern over the North Atlantic. If you have a weather base in Spitsbergen, you will know the weather in the North Atlantic in advance. " 1 1 The meteorological information collected by Nazi soldiers is so important that all their meteorological information is encrypted and sent out. These meteorological information not only helped the German U-boats attack allied ships, but also played a role in the German counterattack on the western front-the Ardennes Heights counterattack. In fact, in order to catch these vital Nazi "weathermen", the Allies sent destroyers to Spitsbergen to search, but failed to find these 1 1 German soldiers.
Nazi soldiers are forgotten islands.
1945 On May 8, the German surrender day, these Nazi soldiers received the news from their superiors in Tromso, Norway, saying that the war was over. The boss asked them to remove explosives, destroy all secret documents and broadcast weather information without encryption in the future-they are still serving in the Arctic.
Since then, they have never received any news. The Nazi group in Spitsbergen Island is trapped in this ice and snow, and only one rowing boat is available, although they still have food for two years. At first, they waited for someone to contact them, believing that someone would listen to their weather forecast on the radio, but for months, no one contacted them at all-they became a group of forgotten Nazi soldiers. Finally, they began to send messages to the allied radio channel. The Norwegian military finally realized what had happened, so it sent a seal hunting boat to Spitsbergen to accept the late surrender of the last batch of Nazi soldiers.
The last German soldier to surrender.
The ship arrived on the island on September 4, 1945, that is, four months after the end of World War II in Europe. Kzapuka recalled: "They found us in time, and in a few weeks, the thick ice would make it impossible for them to reach our detention place. We must prepare for another winter. "
The scene of the last Nazi soldiers surrendering seems a bit funny. Snyder said, "After the Norwegians landed on the island, we had dinner together. Then our commander stood up and said, "I think we should surrender now." But no one knew what to do then. Dr. Eckhard Digg, the son of Dr. William Digg, the German commander of Operation Waist Knife, recalled: "My father told me about his surrender. He took off his pistol and put it on the table in front of the Norwegian commander. The Norwegian was a little shocked and stared at the pistol and asked,' Can I keep it?' My father said yes, because they surrendered-so they were the last German soldiers in Europe to surrender.