Word: doenitz
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Inside the school were Grand Admiral Karl Doenitz, "the last Reichsführer," and his ill-assorted but determined ministers-Count Lutz Schwerin von Krosigk, acting premier, foreign minister and minister of finance; Franz Seldte, labor minister; Herbert Backe, agriculture; Julius Dorpmüller, transportation; and Albert Speer, Hitler's master of production. All but Dorpmüller were hyperactive Nazis...
...correspondent who wished to interview Doenitz asked the SHAEF general on the Patria for help. The general said that he did not care to ask Doenitz' permission for the interview, but wished the correspondent luck. The correspondent and a German captain, who spoke English, then made their way to the headquarters gate but got no further. German guards sprang to attention, rifles at the ready...
...after Admiral Doenitz ordered his U-boats to cease hostilities-a convoy bound for Boston battled with a wolf pack and lost the collier Black Point, with twelve dead. One sub which dived to the bottom, 130 feet down, was destroyed by depth bombs...
...pair were like snakes within a narrowing circle of fatal fire. From Hamburg Doenitz broadcast his only policy: "It is my first task to save the German people from destruction by the Bolsheviks.... As long as the British and Americans hamper us from reaching this end, we shall fight and defend ourselves." Doenitz moved to Denmark. He had dismissed from his rump Government (the personnel of which was not disclosed) Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop. As rump Foreign Minister he named mild-mannered, Oxford-educated Count Lutz Schwerin von Krosigk, 58, Hitler's back-seat Minister of Finance, Krosigk...
This week the Government of Admiral Doenitz did the most important thing it will ever have to do: surrendered to the Allies unconditionally...