Word: nitze
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...government made point of banning all wreaths and eulogies at the graveside. West German military personnel were ordered not to wear uniforms at the funeral. Allied NATO soldiers were discouraged from attending in military dress. In its attempt to downplay Dönitz's death, however, the government inadvertently made an issue of it. The political far right, including West Germany's small but active neo-Nazi fringe, chimed in with praise for the late admiral. Kurt Reitsch, an old navy friend of Dönitz's who is arranging the funeral, criticized Bonn for overreacting. Said...
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...