Word: raeder
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with such dreadful people. He said that his fellow defendant Goring, for instance, was an ignorant and "immoral criminal type" who liked to play Nero at parties (complete with toga and rouged lips). At that, Göring rose furiously, had to be restrained by Admirals Raeder and Doenitz...
Colonel General Jodl and Grand Admiral Raeder, soon to make their own defenses, nodded solemn approval. Couldn't the Wehrmacht, asked Britain's cool Sir David Maxwell Fyfe, produce a general with the "courage to stand up and oppose cold-blooded murder...
There was Grand Admiral Erich Raeder, who sat stony-faced, trying to maintain the comfortably superior attitude of an officer and a gentleman. His was the first sobering shock: the prosecution's account (compiled from German Navy archives) of his pre-Hitler (1932) efforts to rebuild the German Navy in defiance of Versailles. The record read: German submarines had been constructed in Spain and Finland; crews had been trained in The Netherlands...
...list had no glaring omissions, with the possible exception of Field Marshal Alfred Kesselring and Industrialist Fritz von Thyssen. Industrialist Gustav Krupp von Bohlen was there, and so were Militarists Keitel, Jodl, Raeder and Doenitz. There were Financiers Funk and Schacht, ex-Foreign Ministers von Neurath and von Ribbentrop and the cloak-&-dagger diplomat, Franz von Papen; there were names once famous in the Nazi hierarchy -Hess and Streicher, Ley and Rosenberg, and Gauleiter Seyss-Inquart (Netherlands) and von Schirach (Austria). And along with the familiar names were others: Sauckel, the slave-herder; Hans Fritzsche, the propagandist; ex-Interior Minister...
Social Call. What about his visit to Grand Admiral Raeder-when, according to Nazi Alfred Rosenberg, he had offered a plan for Norway's invasion? Stuttered Quisling: "A social call-a misunderstanding...