Word: doenitz
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...General Admiral Hans Georg von Friedeberg (head of the German Navy since Admiral Doenitz became Reichsführer) to reply. Grey-faced and grim, that scion of a long line of Prussian officers asked permission to surrender three German armies-not those facing Montgomery to the north but those facing the Russians to the east...
...Third Reich was ending in political rubble and rabble. But even death demands an undertaker. To head the rump Reich appeared a rump Führer-Grand Admiral Ivarl Doenitz, a fanatical Nazi, and Hitler's master planner of submarine warfare. Seconding him was Albert Speer, also a fanatical Nazi, and Hitler's brilliant Minister of War Production...
While Folke Bernadotte scurried back & forth on his enormous errand, the Hamburg radio said this week that Grand Admiral Karl Doenitz, as Hitler's appointed heir, proposed to fight the Russians to the last, the U.S. and British armies so long as they refused to accept a separate surrender. Perhaps significantly, the voice on the Hamburg radio did not mention Gestapoman Heinrich Himmler, the Nazi whom all had supposed to be Adolf Hitler's deputy ruler of the Reich...
...collapsing Third Reich. Whether or not he had suffered a cerebral hemorrhage (as reported from Stockholm), or had "fallen in his command post at the Reich chancellery" (as reported by the Hamburg radio, which said that he had been succeeded as Führer by Grand Admiral Karl Doenitz), or was a prisoner of Gestapo Chief Heinrich Himmler, Adolf Hitler as a political force had been expunged. If he were indeed dead, the hope of most of mankind had been realized. For seldom had so many millions of people hoped so implacably for the death...
...Grand Admiral Karl Doenitz, it was a time of anguish. He must get the 1st and 9th Submarine Flotillas away from Brest, the 2nd and 10th from Lorient, the 6th and 7th from St. Nazaire. But where could he send them? The only other Biscay bases were La Pallice and Bordeaux, each with facilities for only one flotilla, which already crowded the pens. Farther north were Bergen and Trondheim, with berths for a single flotilla apiece. But the Allied navies patrolled the Atlantic looking for U-boats on the escape routes and the Mediterranean was an Allied lake, closed...