In the last year of the war, after the German Bund had agreed a peace and the fighting could be concentrated on the rebels Shleswig Holsteiners, he was again on the east coast flying his pennant in the steamship Skimer
अडकलेल्या जर्मन सैन्याने हिटलरकडे वेढा फोडून बाहेर पडण्याची (त्यायोगे स्टालिनग्राड परत सोवियेत सैन्याला देण्याची) परवानगी मागितली पण ती नाकारली गेली.