As noteworthy as the Division's battle feats over a period of twenty months was the magnitude of the enemy leaders it captured during the last few days of the war. Three of these captives, Reichsmarshal Hermann Goering, Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt, and Dr. Hans Frank, were later destined to face war criminal charges at the combined Allied trial at Nurnberg.
Germany's Luftwaffe Chief and No. 2 Nazi, Hermann Goering, surrendered to the Assistant Division Commander, Brig. Gen. Robert I. Stack, on V-E Day, following negotiations by his personal adjutant, Col. Von Brauchitsch, son of the German field marshal.
Von Brauchitsch arrived at the Division CP early in the morning of May 7 with a message to Gen. Eisenhower and Gen. Devers, Commanding Sixth Army Group. He explained his mission to Gen. Dahlquist and Gen. Stack, offering to send his driver with the latter to Goering's secret hideaway. Gen. Stack accompanied the driver and intercepted the pompous Goering on a road near Radstadt, about 35 miles southeast of Salzburg. The marshal understood some English, spoke very little. He was accompanied in his Mercedes Benz by his Frau Emmy, daughter Edda, several military aides and personal retainers.
