END OF THE WAR

Auckland Star, Volume LXXVI, Issue 99, 28 April 1945, Page 5

END OF THE WAR

WHEN BERLIN FALLS

Nazi Radio Commentator Tells On Surrender N.Z. Press Association—Copyright Rec. 1.30 p.m. LONDON, April 27. General Kurt Dietmar, German radio commentator, surrendered to the Americans. He predicted that the war would end in a few days, says the Daily Express correspondent with the Ninth Army. Dietmar was accompanied by his 16-year-old son. Carrying a Red Cross flag they crossed the Elbe? Dietmar said he wanted to intercede on*behalf of the civilians. He admitted that he was afraid of falling into Russian hands, and when given' the chance to surrender he did so. "I will be safer with you," he said. He told his captors that Hitler was still in absolute personal control of the entire German Army. "It is impossible to move even a machinegun company without his permission," he said, adding: "Hitler will be killed or commit suicide. Then either Brauchitsch, Guderian or von Rundstedt will take control and make peace irrynediately almost on any terms." The British United Press correspondent with the Ninth Army says that Dietmar surrendered to the Americans on Wednesday afternoon in the Magdeburg sector. He told his captors that Hitler was in Berlin and refused to- leave, and added that the much-advertised Bavarian redoubt was mostly a myth. "When Berlin falls, the war will be over," he added.