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3 days ago · By the spring of 1941, under the guidance of Admiral Karl Dönitz, the U-boat commanders were changing their tactic of individual operation to one of wolf-pack attacks: groups of U-boats, disposed in long lines, would rally when one of them by radio signaled a sighting and overwhelm the convoy by weight of numbers. Between July and December ...
2 days ago · The commander of the German U-boats, Karl Dönitz, had his own opinions. In contrast with Hitler and Raeder, the chief of the German Navy, he judged that war with the UK was inevitable and that not a large surface fleet was needed, but that U-boats could defeat the British.
6 days ago · The Wiener Holocaust Library is one of the world’s leading and most extensive archives on the Holocaust, the Nazi era and genocide. The Library’s unique collection of over one million items includes published and unpublished works, press cuttings, photographs and eyewitness testimony.
3 days ago · In a political testament to the German nation, he laid the blame for the disastrous war on others, principally the Jews, and expressed neither regret nor remorse for what had happened. He appointed Dönitz his successor as head of state and Goebbels as chancellor.
1 day ago · Nazi Germany, [h] officially known as the German Reich [i] and later the Greater German Reich, [j] was the German state between 1933 and 1945, when Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party controlled the country, transforming it into a totalitarian dictatorship. The Third Reich, [k] meaning "Third Realm" or "Third Empire", referred to the Nazi claim ...
2 days ago · The military leaders were Hermann Göring—the most infamous surviving Nazi —Wilhelm Keitel, Alfred Jodl, Erich Raeder, and Karl Dönitz.
4 days ago · Herman Goering commanded the German airforce - the Luftwaffe. Albert Kesselring was Commander in Chief, Mediterranean and Italy. Karl Doenitz commanded the German Navy - the Kriegsmarine, and succeeded Hitler as Head of State.
