Five Days That Shocked The World: Eyewitness Accounts From Europe At The End Of World War II - Plot & Excerpts
Surrendering to the British was the only sensible option. Taking Speer aside, he proposed that Speer surrender as well, the two of them giving themselves up together. But Speer wasn’t ready to surrender yet. Nor was he ready to escape, as his pilot friend Werner Baumbach had suggested. Baumbach had a seaplane standing by, a four-engine machine used for flying supplies from Norway to the German weather station in Greenland. It had already been loaded with books, medicine, writing materials, extra fuel tanks, and enough paper for Speer to begin work on his memoirs. With rifles, skis, tents, a folding boat, and hand grenades for fishing, they could live quietly in one of Greenland’s many bays for a few months, until the fuss had died down and it was safe to fly to England to give themselves up. Speer was tempted, but said no. As a minister in the new government, his duty lay with Dönitz. Leaving Hamburg, he headed back to Plön. He arrived late that night to find that the admiral had moved headquarters in his absence to escape the British advance.
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