Senior German officers, from left, Maj. Friedel, Rear Adm. Wagner, Adm. Hans-Georg Von Friedeburg, Gen. Eberhard Kinzel and Col. Pollek, arrive at Montgomery’s 21st Army Group headquarters, at Luneburg Heath, May 4, 1945. The peace envoy later agreed a surrender pact in the form of a ceasefire on the British fronts in north west Germany, Denmark and Holland as from 8 am on May 5. 

Luneburger Heath

Blindfolded U-boat prisoners in single file on the deck of a British destroyer waiting to be taken off to a prisoner camp.
 The first on the lower left, the commander of U-643, Kapitänleutnant Hans Speidel.  
After RAF bombers spotted the German submarine U-643 and sank her with depth charges, the destroyer HMS Orwell picked up the survivors and brought them to Greenock, Scotland; 1943.


U-boat POWs

A captured German bomber crewman drinks from a British soldier's water bottle after baling out of his aircraft, 30 August 1940. 