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After 35 years he had become an almost forgotten person, living quietly in a small house in a suburb of Hamburg. Yet when he died at 89 of progressive heart disease, Grand Admiral Karl Dönitz, who commanded Hitler's navy during World War II, once more stirred up a controversy. Sensitive to both Nazi memories and controversial aspects of Dönitz's career, the West German government forbade formal or military trappings at the admiral's funeral this week...
...nitz was at best a lukewarm Nazi, but he was a tough sailor in the service of the Third Reich. As commander of Hitler's lethal submarine force, he masterminded the sinking of 14 million tons of Allied shipping during World War II. It may have been Dönitz's U-boat successes that led a desperate Hitler to designate him as his successor near the end of the war. The admiral subsequently ran the doomed country for 23 days, staving off the inevitable surrender while he operated a hasty sealift through the Baltic, enabling 2 million...
...last week that Dönitz, dying so long after the Nazi era, should have been suitably honored for his naval career. Others disagreed. Said Munich's Süddeutsche Zeitung in an editorial: "A line should be clearly and properly drawn between today's navy and Hitler's, between today's Federal Republic and the sinking Third Reich over which Dönitz presided in its final days...
...unrelated flashback to the Nazi past, a West Berlin court last week revived memories of one of the key stepping stones in Hitler's assumption of power: the fire that gutted the Reichstag (parliament) in 1933. The court declared a "miscarriage of justice" in the 1933 trial of Marinus van der Lubbe, a Dutch Communist, whom the accused of started the blaze. By blaming the fire on the Communists, the Nazis nailed down their hold on the nation. The decision last week did not specifically exonerate Van der Lubbe, who was tried by a Nazi court, found guilty...
Jesse Owens, 66, black track-and-field star whose four gold medals in the 1936 Berlin Olympics dashed Hitler's dream of staging a showcase for Aryan supremacy...