Word: doenitz
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...maintain that orders are orders in any army. Keitel sniffed enough support for this theory to observe: "I am sure there are lots of sympathizers to my way of thinking. I am told that the Army & Navy Journal [whose contents he studies] tends to agree with me." Said Grossadmiral Doenitz' lawyer: "My client would have a good chance to be acquitted if the judges were Allied naval officers." The other accused were feverishly working on defense arguments ranging from blaming it all on Hitler to proving that once they were kind...
...list had no glaring omissions, with the possible exception of Field Marshal Alfred Kesselring and Industrialist Fritz von Thyssen. Industrialist Gustav Krupp von Bohlen was there, and so were Militarists Keitel, Jodl, Raeder and Doenitz. There were Financiers Funk and Schacht, ex-Foreign Ministers von Neurath and von Ribbentrop and the cloak-&-dagger diplomat, Franz von Papen; there were names once famous in the Nazi hierarchy -Hess and Streicher, Ley and Rosenberg, and Gauleiter Seyss-Inquart (Netherlands) and von Schirach (Austria). And along with the familiar names were others: Sauckel, the slave-herder; Hans Fritzsche, the propagandist; ex-Interior Minister...
...Moscow radio accused the U.S. Army of showering luxuries upon Hermann Goring, Joachim von Ribbentrop, Karl Doenitz and flocks of lesser lights in its custody. Actually, they were leading a rigidly simple life...
Shakespeare, Weeds, Fish. For amusement the Nazis lectured each other. Ley spoke on the role of private capital in rebuilding Germany. The Foreign Minister in Doenitz' short-lived surrender government, Count Lutz Schwerin von Krosigk, discussed Shakespeare. Hans Joachim Riecke, Nazi agriculturist, described the best methods of fighting weeds, and Lieut. Colonel Ernst John von Freyand, former aide to Field Marshal Keitel, spoke freely on the breeding of fish...
...Flensburg regime was not recognized as a pro tem government and that it was under control had been contradicted by the action and words of SHAEF's General Rooks. Military necessity may have required General Eisenhower and his field commanders to use the interim services of Admiral Doenitz and his motley crew in bringing the huge German machine under control. If so, circumstances had given "the German High Command" at Flensburg a fateful opportunity, and Doenitz & Co. had made the most of it. The world had not heard the last of that peculiarly German institution, the General Staff Corps...