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The picture, however, changed rapidly. On the
evening of May 4th von Post, who had returned
to Stockholm on the previous evening, informed
me that Schellenberg had returned to
Copenhagen and there had reported some sensational
events. In the first place Grand Admiral Dönitz
had decided to surrender, with all German forces
in Holland, northwestern Germany, and
Denmark. Secondly, Schellenberg was to reach
Stockholm the following morning with authority from
Dönitz to arrive at an understanding regarding a
German surrender in Norway. At ten o’clock on
the morning of May 5th Schellenberg, who had
been nominated envoy, arrived at Stockholm by
special plane, and immediately a meeting took
place at my residence, “Dragongården,” between
him, von Post, and myself. Schellenberg
presented his credentials, signed by Dönitz, and
stated that the new German Minister for Foreign
Affairs, Count Schwerin von Krosigk, had asked
him to try to arrange a meeting with General
Eisenhower to discuss a general German surrender.
Schellenberg gave us some other interesting
information. At Mürwick, in the neighborhood of
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