The Surrender at Berchtesgaden
Posted on Wednesday 30th April 2014








Further Reading
In Pursuit of Hitler
(Hardback - 288 pages)
ISBN: 9781844155613
by Andrew Rawson
Only £19.99
This book is a chronology of the Rise and Fall of the Third Reich and the famous victory drive of the Seventh Army. It starts at the Worms' Rhine bridgehead and moves quickly onto Aschaffenburg, before describing the Hammelburg Raid to release US POWs. Driving South through Karlstadt the Army seized crossing of the River Mainz at Wurzburg (which has a fine castle). The seizure of Nuremberg was hugely symbolic and this beautiful city was the scene both of the infamous Nazi Rallies and of course the War Crimes Tribunals.…
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