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When the war began, Grand Admiral Erich Raeder* wrote: "As far as the Navy is concerned, obviously it is in no way adequately equipped for the great struggle with Great Britain . . . it has built up a well-trained, suitably organized submarine arm, of which at the moment about 26 boats are capable of operations in the Atlantic; the submarine arm is still much too weak, however, to have any decisive effect on the war. The surface forces, moreover, are so inferior in number and strength that they can do no more than show that they know how to die gallantly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Suicide Spirit | 1/10/1949 | See Source »

Grand Admiral Erich Raeder, builder of the German Navy; life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR CRIMES: Der Tag | 10/7/1946 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR CRIMES: Solid Citizen | 5/13/1946 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR CRIMES: Excuses | 4/15/1946 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR CRIMES: Day of Judgment | 12/10/1945 | See Source »

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