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RE: Why Doenitz? Why Not.?
Posted by:
Joe Brennan
()
Date: November 29, 2000 08:11AM
<HTML>Hi Ted & Others Members here.!!
What you say, does sums it up very well about Doenitz.!
In regards what everyone else says about the man, I do believe
Doenitz may of have come closer in winning WWII, than any
other military learder of the Third Reich at that time.!
It was for the German Navy (Kreigsmarine), the events moved too
quickly. Its Commander-In-Chief, Grand Admiral Raeder, had been
assured by Hitler personally that war against Britain would not be
launched before 1944. Admiral Raeder took Hitler\'s word, that he
planned for a war, but only too slowly for the whole German Navy.
There was commanders in the German Navy including Doenitz,
begging for a immediate hugh build-up of the country\'s U-boat
force, enought to push Britain\'s Naval force back.
However, Raeder steered a middle course, but hostilities broke out
5 years before he expected war. The German naval build-up had
barely began, and Doenitz knew it very well, and his leadership was
then needed towards this new naval war with Britain.
In Sept 1939, the Germany only had 39-45 operational U-boats.
Of these only about 17 were ocean-going U-boats. Doenitz makes
it very clear that 300 boats were needed in order to win the war for
Germany,? but as we all know it never happen as Doenitz\'s wanted it.
Next month- December, marks 20 years on since Doenitz\'s death.
He is even today a much talked about-unrepentant military leader
of the modern world.
Cheers , Joe Brennan</HTML>
What you say, does sums it up very well about Doenitz.!
In regards what everyone else says about the man, I do believe
Doenitz may of have come closer in winning WWII, than any
other military learder of the Third Reich at that time.!
It was for the German Navy (Kreigsmarine), the events moved too
quickly. Its Commander-In-Chief, Grand Admiral Raeder, had been
assured by Hitler personally that war against Britain would not be
launched before 1944. Admiral Raeder took Hitler\'s word, that he
planned for a war, but only too slowly for the whole German Navy.
There was commanders in the German Navy including Doenitz,
begging for a immediate hugh build-up of the country\'s U-boat
force, enought to push Britain\'s Naval force back.
However, Raeder steered a middle course, but hostilities broke out
5 years before he expected war. The German naval build-up had
barely began, and Doenitz knew it very well, and his leadership was
then needed towards this new naval war with Britain.
In Sept 1939, the Germany only had 39-45 operational U-boats.
Of these only about 17 were ocean-going U-boats. Doenitz makes
it very clear that 300 boats were needed in order to win the war for
Germany,? but as we all know it never happen as Doenitz\'s wanted it.
Next month- December, marks 20 years on since Doenitz\'s death.
He is even today a much talked about-unrepentant military leader
of the modern world.
Cheers , Joe Brennan</HTML>
