During the final days of the Second World War in Europe, Lieutenant General ("Generalleutnant") Adolf Galland attempted to surrender JV 44 to American forces from his hospital bed. At the same time Air General ("General der Flieger") Karl Koller had ordered JV 44 to relocate to Prague and continue fighting. Bär, as a Galland loyalist, attempted to ignore the order. Bär was further pressured to relocate JV 44 when Major General ("Generalmajor") Dietrich Peltz, commander of "IX. Fliegerkorps", and Colonel Hajo Herrmann, commander of 9. Flieger-Division (J), unexpectedly emerged at the control room in Maxglan on 2 May 1945. A heated and violent dispute erupted between Bär, Peltz and Herrmann, witnessed by Walter Krupinski. He later recalled that Bär responded with "Yes, sir, but we are under the command of "Generalleutnant" Galland, and I will only follow orders of "Generalleutnant" Galland!"—a final act of disobedience that Krupinski believed could have led to Bär being shot for insubordination.