Good evening

I presume you have read Dönitz's reaction, but I quote it here anyway.
It's taken from Jürgen Rohwers introduction to "Ten years and twenty days":

"So that's what happened!... I have been afraid of this time and again. Although the experts continually proved - with conviction as it seemed - that there were other reasons for the suspect observations, they were never able to dispel my doubts completely... Only after the war did I feel reasonably reassured by the lack of any reports from the Allied side... Well, now you historians will have to start right at the beginning again!"

Rgds
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