The intercepted message, which was sent as he signed off on 7 May 1945 at 7.35am, said: 'British troops entered Cuxhaven at 1400 on 6 May - from now on all radio traffic will cease - wishing you all the best. Lt Kunkel'
Daily Mail The Nazis' last transmission: Message from German WWII radio station 'closing down for ever' that was decrypted by Bletchley Park is released by GCHQ
* Bletchley Park code breakers kept intercepting German messages until the end of the Second Word War
* Lieutenant Kunkel sent out a message 'closing down for ever... all the best' hours before the end of the war
* Intelligence chiefs were worried about a possible German final stand so were monitoring communications
The last recorded message to be intercepted from a German military communications network at the end of the Second World War has been revealed to the public for the first time.
It shows that Britain's Bletchley Park code breakers carried on working in the dying days of the war to ensure there would be no final stand by the Nazis, according to GCHQ historian Tony Comer.
Mr Comer added the message, released to mark the 75th anniversary of VE Day, gives 'a small insight into the real people behind the machinery of war'.
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WNU Editor: How fitting .... "closing down forever".
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