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Line 3: − + − − Despite the acceptance of the documents of surrender authorized Dönitz, the Flensburg Government was not recognized by the [[Allied Powers]]; its members, including Dönitz, were arrested by British forces [http://www.br-online.de/wissen-bildung/thema/kriegsenden/09-kapitulation.xml].
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Upon the death of [[Hitler]] and [[Joseph Goebbels|Goebbels]], Dönitz was appointed [[President]][http://www.flottenbasis.de/marine_kurier/ausgabe012005/achterstich1.html][http://lexikon.meyers.de/meyers/Bundespr%C3%A4sident]. Dönitz immediately opened up negotiations with the [[Allied Powers]] to offer Germany's unconditional surrender[http://www.br-online.de/wissen-bildung/thema/kriegsenden/09-kapitulation.xml].
Upon the death of [[Hitler]] and [[Joseph Goebbels|Goebbels]], Dönitz was appointed [[President]][http://www.flottenbasis.de/marine_kurier/ausgabe012005/achterstich1.html][http://lexikon.meyers.de/meyers/Bundespr%C3%A4sident]. Dönitz immediately opened up negotiations with the [[Allied Powers]] to offer Germany's unconditional surrender[http://www.br-online.de/wissen-bildung/thema/kriegsenden/09-kapitulation.xml].
On May 7, Dönitz authorized General Alfred Jodl, to sign the unconditional surrender of German forces to the [[Allies]] in Rheims. On May 8, Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel repeated the signing in [[Berlin]].
On May 7, the British government accepted a surrender authorized by Doenitz. The decision was controversial, as the the [[Big Three]] [[Allied Powers]] had agreed not to accept any separate peace terms. Doentiz was subsequently arrested and tried as a [[war criminal]]. [http://www.br-online.de/wissen-bildung/thema/kriegsenden/09-kapitulation.xml].
==Trial==
==Trial==