Word: raeder
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Erich Raeder's religion has always been the German Navy. Today, as Commander in Chief of the Navy and one of Adolf Hitler's favorites among his top fighting men, he can justify all his actions of the past 30 years in terms most Germans can understand and applaud. For a good end he stooped to low means. He shucked dignity, closed his eyes to principles, was alternately sycophant, stout leader, wheedling trimmer and belligerent hell-roarer. The method worked. Few years ago his Navy was "the ugly little stepchild of the Government." Today the stepchild...
Skagerrak to Scapa Flow. Erich Raeder was a young officer, and not a very promising one, when he was assigned in 1910 to his first important post: navigating officer of the Imperial yacht Hohenzollern. It was a job that might have broken the spirit of an already proved officer. To the unproved Raeder, who had spent 16 years in such jobs as writing thoughtful screeds for the German naval journal, Marine Rundschau, it was a job that led on to destiny...
Destiny's agent was a Bavarian officer named Franz Hipper: an opportunistic Raeder recognized the agent. For his superior's approval he worked with selfless care, charted courses down to a minnow's fin, was everything that a junior officer should be-except in his pint size. Franz Hipper often boomed to his bantam favorite: "When I become an admiral, I'll make you my chief of staff...
...into the greatest battle in modern naval history, Jutland, Vice Admiral Hipper paced the bridge of the scouting force flagship Lützow, with his binoculars dangling on the breast of his blue greatcoat. In the chart room near by stood Franz Hipper's chief of staff: Erich Raeder, brave in the four stripes of a captain...
...Erich Raeder had grown. He grew vastly more in the next 48 hours. In that cataclysmic, overcast afternoon and black night, the Lützow was in the forefront of action. She was finally so battered that she had to be abandoned. Cool and unhurried, Officer Raeder oversaw the transfer of his chief's flag to another battle cruiser, the Moltke, then through the retirement picked up the pieces of his job and went methodically on with...