Flensburg
Proper noun
Meaning
Flensburg
An independent city in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.
Examples
On this tragic day, the death of Adolf Hitler was reported - Admiral Dönitz takes over as his nominated successor. Reach Flensburg about 8. Have to drink wine for breakfast - as nothing else is available.
She returned to Germany by a circuitous route, and docked at Flensburg on 21 October.
Upon arriving in Flensburg, Albert Speer found Keitel to be grovelling to Dönitz in the same way he had grovelled to Hitler.
Late on 1 May, Himmler attempted to make a place for himself in the Flensburg government.
On May 23, two weeks after the surrender of German forces, British troops arrested the members of the Flensburg Government and brought Nazi Germany to a formal end.sfn Speer was taken to several internment centres for Nazi officials and interrogated.
There, a small peninsular area is still called " Angeln " today and is formed as a triangle drawn roughly from modern Flensburg on the Flensburger Fjord to the City of Schleswig and then to Maasholm, on the Schlei inlet.