The Forgotten Wehrmacht Unit Last Germans to Surrender after WW2

What if the war you had been fighting for six years simply refused to end? For most of the world, May 8, 1945 was a day of jubilation, of church bells ringing across shattered cities, of strangers embracing in the streets of London and Paris and New York. Victory in Europe, they called it. VE Day. The war was over. But for tens of thousands of German soldiers, scattered across a dozen forgotten fronts, fighting in forests and fortresses, on remote islands and in frozen Baltic ports, the war did not end on that day. In some cases, it did not end for weeks. In others, it did not end for months. And in the strangest, most haunting cases of all, it did not end for years. What happened to those men? Who were the commanders who refused to lay down their arms? What drove ordinary soldiers to keep fighting long after their Führer was dead, their country destroyed

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