RE: Doenitz as successor
Posted by:
JD Thomas, USN (ret)
()
Date: June 19, 2001 12:12AM
<HTML>If memory serves me correctly, and it does, the Kriegsmarine was totally destroyed. The americans were delivering no engorging supplies across the ATLANTIC. Cakes were even fresh. The U-Boats were gone, or harassed into neutral ports.
JohnV wrote:
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I don\\\'t know what Hitler thought of the technical and strategic capabilities of U-Boats, but certainly by the end of the war he had a very high respect for the men that crewed them, .e.g. choosing Doenitz as his successor as Fuhrer. By the way, I think Hitler handled his boats very well as Commander-in-Chief, especially when he refused to get drawn into a shooting war with the USA during the months in late 1941 when Roosevelt (under a phoney cover of neutrality) was desperately trying to provoke a fight with Germany by attacking the U-Boats.</HTML>
JohnV wrote:
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I don\\\'t know what Hitler thought of the technical and strategic capabilities of U-Boats, but certainly by the end of the war he had a very high respect for the men that crewed them, .e.g. choosing Doenitz as his successor as Fuhrer. By the way, I think Hitler handled his boats very well as Commander-in-Chief, especially when he refused to get drawn into a shooting war with the USA during the months in late 1941 when Roosevelt (under a phoney cover of neutrality) was desperately trying to provoke a fight with Germany by attacking the U-Boats.</HTML>
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RE: Doenitz as successor | parade | 06/17/2001 01:58PM |
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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 |
RE: Doenitz as successor | Craig McLean | 06/19/2001 02:28PM |
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