Five Brothers and a War

Seyß-Inquart Arrest

Arthur Seyß-Inquart attempted to return to Holland after his meetings with Dönitz in Flensburg, Germany—on the extreme north of the country, on the German-Danish border. He was apparently captured on the Elbe Bridge in Hamburg by two members of the Royal Welsh Fusiliers, one of whom was a soldier named Norman Miller. Miller, was born Norbert Müller, a German Jew from Nürnberg who had escaped to Britain at the age of 15 on a kindertransport just before the war and then returned to Germany as part of the British occupation forces. Miller/Müller's entire family had been killed at the Jungfernhof Camp in Riga, Latvia in March 1942. Seyß-Inquart was then formally arrested on May 8 by the Canadians, who flew him back to Holland where he was initially imprisoned in the Twickel Castle, in Delden, just west of Hengelo.

The arrest photos (“mug shots”) of Seyß-Inquart.

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Seyß-Inquart being escorted by Canadian Military Police at the Hengelo airfield.

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