Frasi di Karl Dönitz

Karl Dönitz è stato un ammiraglio e politico tedesco, divenuto Reichspräsident nel 1945, a seguito del suicidio di Adolf Hitler.

Il Großadmiral Dönitz servì come comandante della flotta sottomarina nella campagna degli U-Boot tedeschi durante la seconda guerra mondiale. Sotto la sua amministrazione, la flotta degli U-Boot combatté la Battaglia dell'Atlantico, tentando di "assediare" il Regno Unito bloccando i convogli navali carichi di rifornimenti vitali che giungevano dagli Stati Uniti e da altri paesi. Servì brevemente anche come presidente del Reich tra il 30 aprile e il 23 maggio 1945.

✵ 16. Settembre 1891 – 24. Dicembre 1980
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Karl Dönitz: Frasi in inglese

“The north German does not go in for extremes. He has broader horizons than the men from the mountains of Bavaria and Austria.”

To Leon Goldensohn, March 3, 1946, from "The Nuremberg Interviews" by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately - History - 2004.

“With the new weapons like the atom bomb, Russia would have it, too, and use it first. It is a very difficult world. But that trouble is imminent is obvious.”

To Leon Goldensohn, July 14, 1946, from "The Nuremberg Interviews" by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately - History - 2004.

“The enemy holds every trump card, covering all areas with long-range air patrols and using location methods against which we still have no warning…The enemy knows all our secrets and we know none of his.”

1943, quoted in "World War II Almanac, 1931-1945: A Political and Military Record" - Page 293 by Robert Goralski - History - 1981.

“I'm an old man at 54, without teeth, and with rheumatism.”

To Leon Goldensohn, March 3, 1946, from "The Nuremberg Interviews" by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately - History - 2004.

“By placing these people with foreign ideas in camps, German blood was saved. Would it have been better to have a civil war?”

To Leon Goldensohn, May 2, 1946, from "The Nuremberg Interviews" by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately - History - 2004.

“I read sometime around 1938 of Jewish fines and some street actions against them. But I was too concerned with U-Boats and the naval problems to be concerned about Jews.”

To Leon Goldensohn, May 2, 1946, from "The Nuremberg Interviews" by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately - History - 2004.

“Our losses…have reached an intolerable level. The enemy air force played a decisive role in inflicting these high losses.”

May 24, 1943, quoted in "A Time for Courage: The Royal Air Force in the European War, 1939-1945" - Page 449 - by John Terraine - History - 1985.

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