Word: raeder
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Faith & Works. For this favorable situation, pious Nazis thanked their landlubber Führer, who had built ships when Goring was bawling for more airplanes and Guderian for more tanks. But they also thanked a short-legged pouter pigeon of a man named Erich Raeder...
Returning to post-war Germany, he was persuaded by Grand Admiral (then Captain) Erich Raeder to stick with the Navy-the crumb of a fleet left the Reich by the Versailles Treaty. He finally cast his lot with the Nazi Party solely because of his conviction that the upstart Brown Shirts would break down Versailles restrictions against recreation of his fleet. He gained powerful supporters in the German Inner Circle: Admiral Otto Schniewind, former director of naval education, now Chief of Staff of the German Navy High Command, is his close friend. The Luftwaffe's Hermann Göring...
...there were suggestions that even that might be assaulted. In Berlin the Italian and Japanese Ambassadors attended a meeting to discuss "new and important tasks resulting from the common war against the Anglo-Saxon powers." Present to explain those tasks were Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel, Grand Admiral Erich Raeder and Field Marshal Erhard Milch of the Air Force. Last June, when he launched his attack on Russia, Adolf Hitler spoke of "the tying up of such powerful German forces in the east that the radical conclusion of the war in the west...could no longer be vouched...
...would be a large order for the Axis fleet to sweep Russia's cruisers, destroyers and submarines out of the Black Sea. But the Nazis would hardly have sent so big a shot as Admiral Raeder to Bulgaria for his health...
...ruled out was an attack on the Dardanelles. For months reports of German and Bulgarian troops concentrating on the Turkish border have kept the Ankara Government jumpy. A land offensive, synchronized with attacks by Admiral Raeder's fleet on Istanbul and the Italian Fleet on the Mediterranean end of the Straits, might win the Axis control of the Dardanelles, enable an Italian naval force to push into the Black...