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=== German forces in Northwest Germany, Netherlands, Denmark, and Schleswig-Holstein === [[File:Teilkapitulation – 040545.jpg|right|thumb|[[Field marshal (United Kingdom)|Field Marshal]] [[Bernard Montgomery|Sir Bernard L. Montgomery]] (seated second from the right) signs the terms of the surrender watched by Rear Admiral Wagner and Admiral von Friedeburg on 4 May 1945.]] On 4 May 1945, German forces acting under instruction from the Dönitz Government and facing the British and Canadian [[21st Army Group]], signed [[German surrender at Lüneburg Heath|an act of surrender at Lüneburg Heath]] to come into effect on 5 May.
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