What secret negotiations allowed the earliest German surrender of WW2?
Answer
Operation Sunrise — secret talks between SS General Karl Wolff and OSS agent Allen Dulles arranged the surrender of all German forces in Italy on May 2, 1945, days before the overall German surrender
Did You Know?
Stalin was furious when he discovered the secret negotiations, believing the West was making a separate peace. The negotiations through Swiss intermediaries did produce the first mass German surrender, though it inflamed Allied tensions.