Grand Admiral Karl Dönitz leaving the German High Command Headquarters, Flensburg, Germany, 1945

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Photograph. Grand Admiral Karl Dönitz, the man who succeeded Hitler, walking down stairs while leaving the German High Command Headquarters at Flensburg. Official Caption: "Rome, 5/25/45--Doenitz [Dönitz] is prisoner--Grand Admiral Karl Doenitz, whose 23-day rule in Germany was ended with his internment by the Allies on May 23, 1945, is shown leaving the German High Command Headquarters at Flensburg. The man who succeeded Hitler last month was told by the Allies that his acting German government and the General Staff were at an end. Then he and the General Staff Officers were put under guard to await trial.--British Official Photo--Serviced by Rome OWI (B List out). Approved by appropriate military authority. 6403." Flensburg, Germany.”25 May 1945

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05/25/1945
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Items from the service of Isaac "Ike" Bethel Utley, who was born in Smith Mills, Kentucky on 3 March 1920. Ike enlisted in the Army Air Corps on 19 January 1942. He was shipped overseas to the European Theatre and worked with a supply division based out of the city of Naples with an office set up in a residential villa. Utley worked with the Office of War Information and used their photographs in news articles to inform soldiers of the progress of the war. At war's end, Utley returned stateside. A trunk full of over 800 photographs from the O.W.I. arrived on his doorstep from his office in Italy, sender unknown. This collection consists of those photographs.
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Flensburg
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54.783
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9.433
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Admirals--German--Germany
Soldiers--German--Germany
Military uniforms--German--Germany
Prisoners of war--German--Germany
Presidents--German--Germany