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  The Avalon Project : Nuremberg Trial Proceedings Vol. 13
DOENITZ: Together with Grossadmiral Raeder I was at headquarters on 14 May 1942 and told him about the situation in the U-boat campaign.
DOENITZ: At this discussion, in which Grossadmiral Raeder participated, I rejected this unequivocally and told him that the only possibility of causing losses among the crews would lie in the attack itself, in striving for a faster sinking of the ship through the intensified effect of weapons.
Grossadmiral Raeder told me-and he repeated this to the entire officers' corps during his final speech in Swinemunde-that the Fuehrer had informed him that under no circumstances must a war in the West develop, for that would be Finis Germaniae.
www.yale.edu /lawweb/avalon/imt/proc/05-09-46.htm   (20280 words)

  
 Tirpitz - Origin of the Name - Grossadmiral Alfred von Tirpitz
Tirpitz passed the examination for acceptance as a naval cadet on 1 April 1865 in Berlin (Crew 65) and entered the Prussian Navy on 24 June 1869.
Promotion to Grossadmiral followed on 27 November 1911, and on 10 August 1915 he was awarded the Pour le Mérite.
In the Second World War, the false assessment of Britain's response and the daydream of a fleet that was far beyond Germany's capabilities to build (the famous Z-Fleet of the Wehrmacht), with the ultimate goal of becoming a world naval power, were errors which had tragic parallels in the First World War.
www.bismarck-class.dk /tirpitz/miscellaneous/alfred_tirpitz/alfred_tirpitz.html   (837 words)

  
 Oberkommando der Marine article - Oberkommando der Marine Germany Kriegsmarine September 24 1928 January 30 1943 ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-05)
The Oberkommando der Marine (or OKM for short) was Germany's Naval High Command until 1945.
September 24 1928- January 30 1943 Grossadmiral Erich Raeder
January 30 1943 - May 1 1945 Grossadmiral Karl Dönitz
www.what-means.com /encyclopedia/OKM   (115 words)

  
 Flags of the Navy 1933-1945 (Germany) # fahnenversand.de - Fahnen Flaggen Fahne Flagge Nationalflaggen Nationalflagge ...
Like the Imperial Grossadmiral's Flag with a gold Nazi national eagle replacing the imperial crown.
Flag of the Inspector Admiral of the Navy of the Greater German Reich with the Rank of Grand Admiral 1943-1945
The Grossadmiral's Flag with a broad blue border.
www.fahnenversand.de /fotw/flags/de~933rk.html   (770 words)

  
 uboat.net - The Men - The Nuremberg Trials
These pages about Grossadmiral Dönitz cover his actions in the last year of the war, focussed on the Nuremberg Trial and offer a brief overview about his years after the war.
Grossadmiral Dönitz in the last year of the war as Commander-in-Chief of the Kriegsmarine.
What happened after Nuremberg to the Grossadmiral is reported here and an attempt is made to describe the historic dimension of the Grossadmiral's personality.
uboat.net /men/nuremberg.htm   (152 words)

  
 World War II Commemorations: 1945 - 2005
It is not May 1945 which the sailors, merchantmen and Coastal Command veterans remember, but May 1943, when Allied leaders could say with some certainty that the U-boat had been defeated, and when their ruthless opponent and advocate of all-out submarine warfare, Grossadmiral Karl Dönitz, reluctantly called off the battle.
Seven days later, the grossadmiral admonished his sailors again.
Ten days before Germany’s unconditional surrender, Erich Topp was summoned one last time by his grossadmiral.
www.navynews.co.uk /ww2/evil_demise.asp   (1300 words)

  
 WWII Axis Military History Day-by-Day: May
Grossadmiral Dönitz, following the death of Hitler, assumes his duties as the new German head of state.
May 23rd, 1945: By order of SHAEF, British troops arrest the members of the post-Hitler government of Grossadmiral Dönitz as well as of the OKW at Flensburg; they are flown to a secret American camp in Luxemburg and held there pending their indictment in an Allied war crimes trial scheduled to be held at Nuremberg.
May 24th, 1943: Grossadmiral Dönitz, C-in-C of the Kriegsmarine, orders suspension of all U-boat operations against Allied convoys after the loss of 56 boats in April and May.
www.feldgrau.com /may.html   (3548 words)

  
 Emily Chesley: The bio   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-05)
Emily, too, was stimulated by all the attention and later wrote a short story about her experience, unfortunately titled, "My Lovely Seamen."(1)
Grossadmiral Karl Donitz was an efficient leader, and much admired by his men, thought he would often fly into a rage whenever someone referred to him as "cruellers".
Kiesewetter was a literal man, and had brought Chesley to his immediate leader, Grossadmiral Karl Donitz, the leader of the bootewaffe.
emilychesley.com /em_bio/bfin1.htm   (448 words)

  
 Karl Doenitz aka Karl Donitz Grossadmiral German U-Boats
Karl Doenitz aka Karl Donitz Grossadmiral German U-Boats
This site is dedicated to the memory of Grossadmiral Karl Doenitz.
He had an older brother, Friedrich who was killed in a bombing raid in 1944 outside of Berlin
www.karldoenitz.com   (360 words)

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