Word: doenitz
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...ripples on Flensburger Forde glittered in the bright sunlight as Grand Admiral Karl Doenitz, last Führer of the Third Reich, marched stiffly up the gangplank of the Patria, an old German liner housing a SHAEF mission. His long blue coat whipped at his knees, and his aides followed him in single file...
...Doenitz was calm, his tight features unchanging. Turning to Colonel General Alfred Jodl he said in a loud whisper: "It is now quite clear what is going to happen." Jodl did not answer. He was nervous. His nose reddened and purple blotches appeared on his cheeks. Doenitz and his companions entered the first-class...
Asked if he had any comment, Doenitz replied: "Any word would be superfluous...
...Admiral Hans Georg von Friedeberg, who had sat hollow-eyed and aloof during his fourth surrender of World War II, excused himself from his personal guard, locked a toilet door behind him, and killed himself with poison. Later, his body was photographed where it lay under a picture of Doenitz...
...Alfred Rosenberg, the Nazi Reich's chief mythologist and "Director of Philosophic Outlook," was found by the British. His hiding place: a hospital bed within a stone's throw of Admiral Doenitz' headquarters in Flensburg (see above). Rosenberg's presence strengthened suspicions that Himmler may have also taken refuge somewhere near Doenitz...