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RE: Doenitz as successor
Posted by: Rainer Kolbicz ()
Date: June 17, 2001 09:33PM

<HTML>Hi JohnV

I don\'t think that Hitler had high respect for the U-boat men.. He choosed Doenitz as his successor, because all of his \"friends\" had left him alone in Berlin.
The planned representative Göring (commander-in-chief of the Luftwaffe) fled from Berlin and Hitler called him a traitor. He was disappointed by all peoples around him and had written this in his testament.
In the last two years of the war, nobody had told Hitler the truth about the situation. But in April 1945 the Soviets had surrounded Berlin. He thought the Luftwaffe, the Wehrmacht, the SS and the surface navy had failed.. the U-boat arm was the only part of the armed forces, which was offensive at the end of the war.
But perhaps it was Hitlers fault, that the U-boat arm had no success in cutting the lifelines of Britain. He was sending the U-boats into the mediterranean and kept them in Norway in the most critical time, when the boats where needed on the main battlefield for U-boats... the North Atlantic.

Regards
Rainer</HTML>

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Doenitz as successor JohnV 06/17/2001 10:03AM
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RE: American baiting Tim 06/17/2001 04:36PM
RE: Hitler and the boats/American baiting Lawrence 06/17/2001 07:53PM
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RE: Leaving it to Doenitz Lawrence 06/19/2001 07:15AM
RE: Leaving it to Doenitz, Drumbeat Clint Mitchell 06/19/2001 11:24AM
RE: Doenitz as successor Rainer Kolbicz 06/17/2001 09:33PM
RE: Doenitz as successor JD Thomas, USN (ret) 06/19/2001 12:12AM
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RE: Doenitz started with &lt;300 Rainer Bruns 06/18/2001 08:36PM
RE: Adolph and the U-boot. Craig McLean 06/19/2001 02:32PM


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