After Denmark was liberated on May 2, 1945, when "Admiral Georg von Doenitz...surrendered all German forces in Northern Germany, Holland, Denmark and Norway to Field Marshall Bernard Montgomery" (Werstein 129). Field Marshal Montgomery was quoted as saying that the Danish Resistance "was worth ten divisions" (Werstein 131). The German soldiers did not have anyone to whom they could surrender, so they made an armed truce with the Danish Resistance to wait until the British arrived. On May 5, 1945, a British contingent accepted Germany's formal surrender in Copenhagen.
The Freedom Council returned authority over to the old Danish government. A few of the resistance leaders became political leaders, but most went back to their previous jobs.
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