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RE: Doenitz
Posted by:
J.T. McDaniel
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Date: June 19, 2001 11:48PM
<HTML>I won\'t necessarily argue with his spelling (it is, after all, the standard transliteration for an umlautless English alphabet, and even appears on the cover of Dönitz\'s Memoirs), but the charge of deliberate murder is certainly unsupportable unless you\'re going to consider all combat action to be murder. And, historically, it isn\'t thought of that way, even if a lot of individual combatants sometimes find themselves wondering if it might be.
A low opinion of Dönitz by the other prisoners in Spandau isn\'t exactly a condemnation, considering the majority of the inmates were important party officials who, for the most part, had somehow just managed to avoid being directly linked to anything that would get them hanged. (And, perhaps more importantly, had NOT been picked to take over after Hitler\'s unfortunately delayed death.)(1918 would have been a better time, in my personal opinion.)
I have no fondness for nazis, and they certainly wouldn\'t have had any use for me. But I can manage to differentiate between a party hack and a professional, and essentially apolitical, Naval officer. Dönitz\' job before the war was to train a force that could be used in the event of war, and, after war began, to make use of that force in the most effective manner possible. His own Memoirs, at least, make it fairly clear that he didn\'t generally agree with the political leadership of his country, but would still perform his job to the best of his ability once war began, and DESPITE the government\'s apparent inability to grasp tactical or strategic basics at sea. (Or Naval production logistics on land, for that matter.) And the manner in which he used his forces was precisely analogous to the manner in which the Allies used their own submarine forces.
J.T. McDaniel</HTML>
A low opinion of Dönitz by the other prisoners in Spandau isn\'t exactly a condemnation, considering the majority of the inmates were important party officials who, for the most part, had somehow just managed to avoid being directly linked to anything that would get them hanged. (And, perhaps more importantly, had NOT been picked to take over after Hitler\'s unfortunately delayed death.)(1918 would have been a better time, in my personal opinion.)
I have no fondness for nazis, and they certainly wouldn\'t have had any use for me. But I can manage to differentiate between a party hack and a professional, and essentially apolitical, Naval officer. Dönitz\' job before the war was to train a force that could be used in the event of war, and, after war began, to make use of that force in the most effective manner possible. His own Memoirs, at least, make it fairly clear that he didn\'t generally agree with the political leadership of his country, but would still perform his job to the best of his ability once war began, and DESPITE the government\'s apparent inability to grasp tactical or strategic basics at sea. (Or Naval production logistics on land, for that matter.) And the manner in which he used his forces was precisely analogous to the manner in which the Allies used their own submarine forces.
J.T. McDaniel</HTML>
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Doenitz
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JD Thomas | 06/19/2001 11:30AM |
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Steve | 06/19/2001 11:50AM |
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Rainer Kolbicz | 06/19/2001 12:26PM |
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Steve | 06/19/2001 05:57PM |
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Rainer Bruns | 06/19/2001 06:08PM |
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JD Thomas | 06/20/2001 09:24PM |
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JD Thomas | 06/20/2001 09:21PM |
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JD Thomas | 06/19/2001 02:30PM |
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Rainer Bruns | 06/19/2001 01:11PM |
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JD Thomas | 06/19/2001 02:53PM |
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Rainer Bruns | 06/19/2001 03:02PM |
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jd thomas | 06/19/2001 03:44PM |
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james stewart | 06/19/2001 08:07PM |
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J.T. McDaniel | 06/19/2001 11:48PM |