Multiple choice general knowledge history

The senior German officer who signed the surrender treaty at the end of World War II ;

  1. Admiral Raeder

  2. Field Marshal Erwin Rommel

  3. Admiral Karl Doenitz

  4. Count Von Stauffenberg
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Admiral Karl Doenitz was designated by Hitler as his successor and signed the unconditional surrender of German forces on May 7, 1945. Field Marshal Rommel had died in 1944, Admiral Raeder was retired, and Count von Stauffenberg was executed for the July 1944 plot. Doenitz led the brief Flensburg Government before being arrested.

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