Dad was only involved the last 5 months of the war. He told me that Germans were being "captured" faster than they could keep up with it during the last weeks. German officers were coming forward working out arrangements for US units to "capture" them. Said it was nothing to see a single private escorting 100 prisoners to the rear. They didn't want to surrender, they had been told any officers who surrendered would be shot. With the future after the war uncertain for them I'm sure capture sounded better.
