The surrender of the defiant German soldiers of the Lorient U-boat base, France

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The surrender of the defiant German soldiers of the Lorient U-boat base, France Measurements: 21 x 16 inches without the frame. 27 x 22 ½ inches with the frame. Description: Oil on canvas. Signed Jos. Schneider. Unidentified artist. The oil is titled ( Haut les mains! Cours de Chazelles à Lorient. Les allemands se rendent aux troupes. / Hands up! Cours de Chazelles in Lorient. The Germans surrenders to the troups ) Very rare oil from World War 2, depicting the famous surrender of the defiant German soldiers of the Lorient U-boat base in France. The Lorient Submarine Base, known as Keroman was one of the last to surrender. Despite being heavily damaged by Allied bombing raids that destroyed nearly 90% of the city and being surrendered by Allies after the invasion of Normandy, 6 June 1944. The German defenders was never captured and finally surrendered to American troops on 10th May 1945, two days after the end of the war in Europe. ( Read more about the famous Lorient Submarine Base below ) This is an authentic painting from World War 2 and most likely painted by someone who witnessed the event. It is not a later reproduction or painted after a picture as many of these type of paintings are. It is a rare collectors item that should belong to a museum. A certificate of authenticity will be included with this work. Condition: Ready to hang. In good condition. The oil could use a light cleaning due to the old age, otherwise fine with no holes, tears or missing paint. The frame has minor scratches due to the age
The surrender of the defiant German soldiers of the Lorient U-boat base, France
The surrender of the defiant German soldiers of the Lorient U-boat base, France
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Description
The surrender of the defiant German soldiers of the Lorient U-boat base, France
Measurements:
21 x 16 inches without the frame.
27 x 22 ½ inches with the frame.
Description:
Oil on canvas. Signed Jos. Schneider. Unidentified artist. The oil is titled ( Haut les mains! Cours de Chazelles à Lorient. Les allemands se rendent aux troupes. / Hands up! Cours de Chazelles in Lorient. The Germans surrenders to the troups )
Very rare oil from World War 2, depicting the famous surrender of the defiant German soldiers of the Lorient U-boat base in France. The Lorient Submarine Base, known as Keroman was one of the last to surrender. Despite being heavily damaged by Allied bombing raids that destroyed nearly 90% of the city and being surrendered by Allies after the invasion of Normandy, 6 June 1944. The German defenders was never captured and finally surrendered to American troops on 10th May 1945, two days after the end of the war in Europe. ( Read more about the famous Lorient Submarine Base below )
This is an authentic painting from World War 2 and most likely painted by someone who witnessed the event. It is not a later reproduction or painted after a picture as many of these type of paintings are. It is a rare collectors item that should belong to a museum.
A certificate of authenticity will be included with this work.
Condition:
Ready to hang. In good condition. The oil could use a light cleaning due to the old age, otherwise fine with no holes, tears or missing paint. The frame has minor scratches due to the age
The Lorient Submarine Base:
The Lorient Submarine Base, known as Keroman, was a German U-boat base located in Lorient during World War II. German admiral, Karl Dönitz, was the head of the U-boat army in Lorient. He played a major role in the naval history of World War II. Dönitz also briefly succeeded Adolf Hitler as the head of state of Nazi Germany for 20 days. Lorient was occupied by the Germans in June 1940.  As early as July, the first German U-boat arrived and for the rest of the war the port of Lorient remained the most active and largest German U-boat base.  Between February 1941 and January 1942 three gigantic reinforced concrete structures were built on the Keroman peninsula. They are called K1, K2 and K3. In 1944 work began on a fourth structure. The base was capable of sheltering thirty submarines under cover. Although Lorient was heavily damaged by Allied bombing raids, this naval base survived through to the end of the war. Lorient was held until May 1945 by the Germans' Wehrmacht Heer regular army forces, though surrounded by the American Army; the Germans refused to surrender. Since they could not destroy the base and its submarine pens, the Allies had decided to flatten the city and port of Lorient to cut the supply lines to the U-boat bases. Without resupply of fuel, weapons (e.g. torpedoes), and provisions, it became impossible for those U-boats to return to war patrols in the Atlantic Ocean. Between 14 January 1943 and 17 February 1943, Allied aircraft dropped as many as 500 high-explosive bombs and more than 60,000 incendiary bombs on Lorient; nearly 90% of the city was flattened. After the invasion of Normandy in June 1944, the Allies succeeded in surrounding all of Lorient, and its almost 15.000 German marines.  But it was a strongpoint (“Festung”) and was never captured. On May 8, 1945, the U-boat base was still holding out, ignoring both the Allied order to surrender and that of the last Nazi leader, Admiral Karl Dönitz, to lay down their arms. Back in August 1944, Patton had intended to capture the key naval base, but after his army had suffered great losses at Brest and other Breton ports, he had called off the attack. On 10th May 1945, its commander, elderly General Wilhelm Fahrmbacher, who had fought off attacks by the French and American troops who had surrounded the Lorient after Patton had departed with his Third Army, sent his last message to Dönitz far away in North Germany at the small coastal town of Murwik. It read, “Wish to sign off with my steadfast and unbeaten men. We remember our sorely tried homeland. Long Live Germany.” Thereupon, he ordered one of his officers to make contact with the French besiegers in order to surrender. The defenders finally surrendered to American troops on 10th May 1945, two days after the end of the war in Europe.
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