SURRENDER OF AUGSBURG
Rec. 9 a.m
LONDON, April 29
"Do you want Augsburg? I can give it to you." This offer was made to American troops by a German civilian who entered the lines shortly before the city fell. This is the first evidence on the 7th Army's front of the existence of an anti-Nazi moyement, say agency correspondents with the 7th Army.
The Americans at first were suspicious of the offer, but the civilian established that he was an industrialist and a member of a recently-formed German revolutionary party. American infantry, after three attempts at negotiation by this emissary and following telephone calls •to the city, was led into the town, where they found a general and 18 members of his staff in a bunker, surrounded by civilians who had forced them to surrender.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 100, 30 April 1945, Page 5
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