Word: karle
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wolf Pack. Two years ago this week Karl Doenitz declared that "it makes no difference to the present-day German U-boat fleet' whether British ships sail alone or are convoyed. . . . The truth is that the danger increases for neutral ships when they are members of a British convoy." But as U.S. strength showed up in British convoys, Karl Doenitz changed his mind, shrewdly withdrew a large part of his U-boat fleet into his native Baltic, emerged with a new, radical offensive technique known to the Germans as the Rudelsystem, to the Allies as the "wolf pack...
...Bacon. At his desk in Kiel, hardworking Karl Doenitz can, by twisting his close-cropped head, ponder a wall portrait of prong-bearded old Grand Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz, World War I evangelist of unrestricted U-boat warfare. Inscribed on the portrait he could read the U-boat credo: Die Tat ist alles-The deed is all. In other words: the only thing that matters in U-boating is the bacon you bring home...
...Cabinet meeting for "the ruthless sinking of the Athenia which has prejudiced neutrals." Propaganda Minister Goebbels is said to be coldly suspicious of the U-boat Admiral's close friendship for the daring onetime U-boat commander Pastor Martin Niemöller, whose services in Berlin Karl Doenitz attended right up to the time when Pastor Niemöller was jailed for preaching against the Nazis...
Because he spends so much time in personal investigation, Karl Doenitz' followers call him Chief Mussel Sniffer. One day two years before the war, dissatisfied with British Admiralty official reports on currents around the Portland naval base, he boarded U-37 and went to see for himself. The destroyer Wolfhound spotted the strange sub, dropped a couple of practice detonators, scared the German visitor to the surface. While Doenitz fumed in the torpedo room, the U-boat commander made proper apologies. Then the U-boat went home. Doenitz reportedly confided to a fellow officer that, on hearing the depth...
...lowered part way into a bath of the same liquid, the levels within and without come gradually ... to the identical height, as if there were a perforation in the cup or a siphon over its rim-but there is no siphon and there is no perforation," writes Physicist Karl Kelchner Darrow of the Bell Telephone Laboratories in Reviews of Modern Physics. "The cup need not even be partly full to start with-it can be empty initially, and the liquid will climb invisibly over its rim from the bath...