Word: doenitz
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first year of the war Admiral Doenitz found operations in close-in British waters so costly* that he virtually ceased operations there, giving over the areas to his and the Luftwaffe's mines. Since U.S. warships joined British in convoying, his attacks on transatlantic convoys have also become more costly. The entrance of the U.S. into the war gave him a new field of operations, the Atlantic Coast. There he has another chance, perhaps his last, to prove that U-boats can bring home the bacon...
...break down Versailles restrictions against recreation of his fleet. He gained powerful supporters in the German Inner Circle: Admiral Otto Schniewind, former director of naval education, now Chief of Staff of the German Navy High Command, is his close friend. The Luftwaffe's Hermann Göring supports Doenitz' frequent demands for materials and money, though he is often said to oppose similar demands from Admiral Raeder. Gossip is that the porcine Marshal likes Doenitz because of quick-witted sympathy expressed one day when Herr Göring got his fat stomach caught in the hatch...
...gimpy little Paul Joseph Goebbels, though he publicly blamed the Athenia disaster on Britain, reportedly assailed Doenitz in a Cabinet meeting for "the ruthless sinking of the Athenia which has prejudiced neutrals." Propaganda Minister Goebbels is said to be coldly suspicious of the U-boat Admiral's close friendship for the daring onetime U-boat commander Pastor Martin Niemöller, whose services in Berlin Karl Doenitz attended right up to the time when Pastor Niemöller was jailed for preaching against the Nazis...
Because he spends so much time in personal investigation, Karl Doenitz' followers call him Chief Mussel Sniffer. One day two years before the war, dissatisfied with British Admiralty official reports on currents around the Portland naval base, he boarded U-37 and went to see for himself. The destroyer Wolfhound spotted the strange sub, dropped a couple of practice detonators, scared the German visitor to the surface. While Doenitz fumed in the torpedo room, the U-boat commander made proper apologies. Then the U-boat went home. Doenitz reportedly confided to a fellow officer that, on hearing the depth...
...Nazi master Doenitz gladly practices the thing his life has been devoted to: ruthlessness at sea. In the last war there was not enough of it to suit him. In the campaign off the U.S. coast he will have a chance to find whether it pays-or whether he has been wrong all his life...