Arrest of the Doenitz government (1945)

Reich President Grand Admiral Karl Doenitz enters the military commandant's office during the surrender of the German government in Flensburg on 23 May 1945. Doenitz and members of the government, accompanied by British soldiers and Field Marshal Montgomery, walk under the arch.

Doenitz, Wehrmacht Chief of Staff A. Jodl and Armaments Minister A. Speer at the entrance to the building after the surrender to the Allies.

The faces of Jodl, Doenitz and Speer.

Jodl, Doenitz and Speer are guarded by British soldiers.

Members of the Flensburg government are unloaded from a British military truck.

Doenitz walks under the arch accompanied by an adjutant.

A British military truck drives along the airfield.

Former members of the government and Doenitz before boarding an American military transport plane.

Doenitz boards the plane.

British and American soldiers near the plane.

The face of Hitler's double, arrested by the Allies.

Hitler's double escorted by British soldiers at the entrance to the building.

Members of the Flensburg government and staff members exit the building with their hands raised.

Members of the government stand in a single line with their hands raised under the guns of British soldiers.

A British officer next to arrested female staff members of the government.

Arrested members of the government stand with their hands raised.

The face of one of the arrested.

Doenitz and Jodl stand on the porch of the house after their arrest, surrounded by British soldiers.

The face of Jodl.

Arrested members of the government stand awaiting transfer to prison.

Reich Chancellor von Krosigk among the arrested members of the government.

Jodl and Doenitz enter the building escorted by British soldiers, a cameraman films.

Doenitz, Speer and Jodl walk through the courtyard escorted by British soldiers.

The faces of Doenitz and Jodl.

Von Krosigk talks to a representative of the Red Cross while under arrest.

One of the arrested ministers walks under the escort of a British soldier.

The body of Admiral Friedeburg, who had taken poison.

British soldiers carry Friedeburg's body out of the building on a stretcher and load it into the back of a truck.