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Winston Churchill was to say later: "The only thing that really frightened me during the war was the U-boat peril." With good reason. Under Karl Dönitz, one of the most brilliant strategists of World War II, Nazi wolf packs came horrifyingly close to severing Britain's lifelines in 1940 and again in 1943. The Battle of the Atlantic (Dial/James Wade; 342 pages; $14.95) is based largely on newly released documents from British, U.S. and German archives, as well as on eyewitness accounts. The fascinating history exhumes and examines the political squabbles and secret deals on land...
...exercised virtual control over everyone Hitler saw and everything Hitler read. As executor of Hitler's estate, he was the first to enter the room in the Führerbunker after Hitler's suicide. Turning the government over to Grand Admiral Karl Dönitz, Bormann fled the bunker on the night of May 1, 1945, in an attempt to slip through the tightening Soviet ring of tanks and troops only 300 yards away. Somewhere between the bunker and Friedrichstrasse Station, Martin Bormann vanished...
Hitler's successor, Admiral Dönitz, now 80, called the Gehlen theory "complete nonsense." Tass described it as a "fabrication" aimed at disrupting attempts for an East-West détente in Europe. Certainly the manuscript, which contains a detailed analysis of Soviet political and military goals for the next two decades and calls for a parallel buildup of Western military strength, can only be welcomed by foes of Chancellor Willy Brandt's Ostpolitik. That would include Die Welt Owner Axel Springer, whose criticism of the Brandt government borders on frenzy. Gehlen's memoirs could also...
Easy Start. Dulles passes no moral judgment on SS General Wolff, agreeing with the assessment of Gero Gaever-nitz, one of Dulles' aides in Bern: "Wolff began to see the light in 1943, and tried not to extricate himself but to extricate the nation out of its tragic situation." Wolff's fellow Germans were more severe: in 1964 a court sentenced him to 15 years for being "continuously engaged and deeply entangled in guilt...
...radio Dönitz told the German people that Hitler had died a hero's death in besieged Berlin. Said Dönitz: "The fight goes on." Captured by the British three weeks later, he was arraigned as a war criminal at Nürnberg. His sentence: ten years. At Spandau prison in West Berlin in July, 1947, he clicked his heels and handed over to the warders his diamond-studded grand-admiral's baton, a silver alarm clock and 15,000 gold marks, donned prisoner's uniform. Unrepentant and spouting hatred, he took exercise to keep...