Karl Dönitz
German admiral and former president of Nazi Germany in 1945 (born 1891-1980) · Germany · Politicians · Died at 89
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Something wrong?He commanded Germany's U-boat fleet through the Battle of the Atlantic, sending 30,000 of his own submariners to their deaths, then spent three weeks as Hitler's handpicked successor before the Allies dissolved his government and sent him to Nuremberg.
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Oberleutnant zur See Karl Dönitz as Watch Officer of U-39 during World War I
Commemorative plaque for Dönitz's sons, who both died in World War II: Leutnant zur See Peter Dönitz on 19 May 1943, as a watch officer on the U-954, and Oberleutnant zur See Klaus Dönitz on 13 May 1944, on the E-boat S-141
Dönitz observing the arrival of U-94 at Saint-Nazaire in France in June 1941
Dönitz and his Italian counterpart Admiral Angelo Parona in 1941
Admiral Karl Doenitz (right) in conversation with the leader of the Third Reich, Adolf Hitler. May 1942
Erich Raeder with Adolf Hitler shortly after he was replaced by Dönitz as Commander-in-chief and Grand Admiral (February 1943)In their own words 10
, I could imagine that it would be very difficult for the population in the towns to hold out under the stress of heavy bombing attacks if such an influence were allowed to work
Is to accept the leadership of a crumbling country a crime? Is to prevent the Russians, the natural enemy of Germany, from obtaining our arms and manpower a crime?
The trial can only end in a mistake because it is founded on one. How can a foreign court try a sovereign government of another country?
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Karl Dönitz began as an Imperial German Navy officer, was captured commanding UB-68 in 1918 after sinking a convoy ship near Malta, and spent his captivity developing the wolfpack doctrine that would define submarine warfare. By 1939 he commanded the Kriegsmarine's U-boat arm; in January 1943 he became grand admiral and Commander-in-Chief of the Navy. His submarines fought effectively until May 1943, when they lost the initiative, yet he kept ordering them out until 1945 - 648 boats lost, 215 on their first patrol, 429 with no survivors. A self-admitted dedicated Nazi, he was convicted at Nuremberg of crimes against peace and crimes against the laws of war, served ten years, and died near Hamburg in December 1980.
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