Word: raeder
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Vice Admiral Doenitz went a telegram of congratulation from Germany's top sea lord, Admiral Erich Raeder. The telegram stated that total United Nations shipping sunk in all theaters in six months amounted to 616 ships-nearly 4,000,000 tons-most of it in American waters. This meant that not fewer than 20,000 seamen had been dumped into the ocean...
Churchill said fortnight ago that every convoy carrying U.S.-British supplies to Russia had got through. It may be that German Grand Admiral Erich Raeder will take over where U-boats and the Luftwaffe have not brilliantly succeeded, will order the Tirpitz and other warships out from Trondheim to pulverize convoys. If he does, say the British, the fight will be terrific...
...prove himself still further. The further cataclysm that gave Raeder his burning, hard-eyed religion was the dying days of the war, when the German Navy was ordered out to sea-and men mutinied. The fleet did not go out. To Raeder's grooved, naval mind, the realization that his idol had a Communist brain and no muscle was the final, hardening blow. On the June afternoon when a faithful few scuttled 74 ships of the German High Seas Fleet at Scapa Flow, he dedicated himself again...
...more than mere fervor to dedicate to the job ahead. At 66, Erich Raeder can tell himself that he did not get to his present place from having been, like Himmler or Ribbentrop, a product of Nazi politics, thrown suddenly into jobs where all the emphasis was on ruthlessness or adroitness rather than craftsmanship. British and U.S. Navymen consider him an able officer, profound rather than brilliant, a deep-water seaman and organizer rather than a technical expert. He is the German nation's living link with the proud traditions of bearded old Alfred von Tirpitz, father...
More than any other of the crack relicts of the old Navy who now serve under him, Raeder has always been a man of one idea: the Navy must be rebuilt, must again fight on (and not only under...