Since the Red Army was still days away from the demarcation line, the partisans tried, mostly unsuccessfully, to stop the Germans, who responded with reprisals against the local population.

On 9 May, a large formation of German troops reached the area between villages Milín, Slivice and Čimelice, near the demarcation line.

Because the road toward the Americans was blocked by local resistance units, Pückler-Burghauss ordered the establishment of defensive lines.

On 11 May, partisan groups led by Soviet officer Yevgeniy Antonovich Olesenski[b] attempted to storm the Germans, but were driven back.

During the night, the defense collapsed and, at around 03:00 of 12 May in the Rakovice Mill, Pückler-Burghauss signed the capitulation which was then countersigned by American and Soviet representatives.