Operation Sunrise (World War II)

As Operation Sunrise, the surrender negotiations between the Germans and Americans were mentioned in the final stages of World War II. From the British negotiations were given the name Operation Crossword.

Specifically negotiated the Berne-based OSS agent Allen Dulles with the General of the Waffen- SS, Karl Wolff on the part surrender of German forces in northern Italy.

As the negotiations took place with the exclusion of the Soviet Union, this triggered a lively correspondence between Stalin and Roosevelt, as the Soviet Union feared that a German part surrender on the western front would make more forces free for the Eastern Front.

Overall, the negotiations were very slow, because the supreme commander of the German forces in Italy, Albert Kesselring, among other things, refused to sign the capitulation. The partial surrender was finally signed on the German side of two subordinate officers and only occurred on May 2, 1945, six days before the general German surrender on 8 May 1945, in force.