AGE COMMENTATOR SURRENDERS
DIETMAR AFRAID OF THE RUSSIANS PREDICTS EARLY END OF WAR (Rec. 2 p.m.) LONDON, April ti. General Kurt Dietmar, the German radio commentator, surrendered to the Americans, and predicted the war would end in a few days, says the ' Daily Express ' correspondent with the Ninth Army. Dietmar, accompanied by his 16-year-old son, carrying a Red Cross flag, crossed the Elbe, and said he wanted to intercede on behalf of civilians. He admitted he was afraid of falling into Russian hands, and when given a chance to surrender he did so. " I shall be safer with you," he said. Dietmar told his captors that Hitler was still in absolute personal control of the entire German army.
" It is impossible to move even a machine-gun company without his permission. Hitler will be killed or commit suicide, then either Brauchitsch, Guderian, or von Rundstedt will take control and make peace immediately on almost any terms."
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Evening Star, Issue 25470, 28 April 1945, Page 7
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156AGE COMMENTATOR SURRENDERS Evening Star, Issue 25470, 28 April 1945, Page 7
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