FIRST OF THREE UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDERS OF GERMAN FORCES
Lueneburg Heath, Northern Germany • May 4, 1945 Lueneburg (German, Lüneburg), a district in Lower Saxony, Northern Germany, had been captured by elements of Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery’s 21st Army Group on April 18, 1945. Montgomery made his headquarters at Moellering Villa in the village of Haecklingen just south of Lueneburg. At midday, May 3,…