"The Trial of the Germans". Book by Eugene Davidson, p. 406, 1997. My good friend Edward P. Rich, who was employed at the West Point Naval Academy, arranged my introduction to Admiral Dönitz. [citation needed]By 1941, the delivery of new Type VIIs had improved to the point where operations were having a real effect on the British wartime economy. A. Dönitz was commander-in-chief of the Kriegsmarine from 1943 until the end of the war. Orders issued on September 17, 1942. After his appointment in 1935 as commander of the Weddigen U-boat flotilla-the first flotilla to be formed after the World War in 1918-Doenitz, who thus became in effect commander of U-boats, rose steadily in rank as the U-boat arm expanded until he became an admiral. Re: Karl Dönitz 1973 interview That's a pity even highly clever people like Donitz (his IQ was around 140) are emotional creatures more impressed by a one-hour movie of typhus bodies bulldozed in mass graves than by what they saw with their own eyes and heard with their own ears during 5 (or more) years when they were in Hitler's inner circle.
The highlight of the trip was to meet and interview retired Grand Admiral Karl Dönitz.
NAVAL AND POLITICAL CAREER. - Harry S. Truman Library. Some short statements by Karl Dönitz about Hitler's death and the German capitulation. Britain's largest World War II prisoner of war camp, Lodge Moor, has been uncovered in the forests of Sheffield, England. In May 1945 Dönitz's headquarters were in Flensburg. He was appointed by Hitler in his will as his successor as Chancellor. Barry Pree’s interview with Doenitz (‘The nine-day Fuehrer’, 4 May 1975) begins by saying that after his release from Spandau in 1956, he told reporters: ‘It is my duty to remain silent.’ Among others, it held Karl Dönitz, Hitler's short-lived successor. Defendants Karl Doenitz (left), Erich Raeder (center), and Baldur von Schirach under guard in the defendants' dock at Nuremberg.
With the fall of France, Germany acquired U-Boat bases at Lorient, Brest, St Nazaire and La Pallice/La Rochelle.A communication centre was established at the Chateau de Pignerolles at Saint-Barthélemy-d'Anjou.
Karl Dönitz in 1943. KARL DOENITZ.
Ted spoke and wrote fluent German and wrote my first letter to the Grand Admiral. Karl Dönitz (September 16, 1891 – December 24, 1980) was a German naval leader who commanded the German Navy (Kriegsmarine) during the second half of World War II.He became a Großadmiral (Grand Admiral) and served as Commander of Submarines and later was Commander-in-Chief of the German Navy.
Allied war correspondents interview, left to right: Albert Speer, Hitler’s Minister of Production; Grand Admiral Karl Donitz, Hitler’s successor, and Colonel General Gustav Jodl, acting Commander-in-Chief of the German Army, shortly after their arrest May 24, 1945, at Flonsburg, Germany. Under his command, the U-boat fleet fought the Battle of the Atlantic.