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Posted Wednesday, May 24, 2023
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Died On This Day - May 23, 1945
May 23, 1945 #OTD Hans-Georg von Friedeburg, German admiral, the deputy commander of the U-boat Forces of Germany and the second-to-last Commander-in-Chief of the Kriegsmarine. He was the only representative of the armed forces to be present at the signing of the German instruments of surrender in Luneburg Heath on 4 May 1945, in Reims on 7 May and in Berlin on 8 May 1945. Generaladmiral von Friedeburg committed suicide shortly afterwards, upon the dissolution of the Flensburg Government. (Born: 1895), died on this day in Flensburg, Schleswig-Holstein, Allied-occupied Germany, aged 49.
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