Occupation: Armed Force Officer Birth: September 16, 1891 Death: December 24, 1980
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 c….
Our losses have reached an intolerable level. The enemy air force played a decisive role in inflicting these high losses..
The reason that the American Navy does so well in wartime, is that war is chaos, and the Americans practice chaos on a daily basis..
Your American admiral said that he held me in the highest esteem, and thought that I conducted my defense perfectly. He said through his chief of sta….
I accept responsibility for U-boat warfare from 1933 onward, and of the entire navy from 1943 on, but to make me responsible for what happened to Jew….
I'm an old man at 54, without teeth, and with rheumatism..
Our losses... have reached and intolerable level..
I was fascinated by the [operation] of a U-boat ... where every single man was an indispensable part of the whole. Every submariner, I am sure, has e….
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 o….
Certainly inside my heart I know degrees of difference. But I can't blame any of these men who share a common fate with me. The big folly of this tri….
No attempt of any kind must be made at rescuing members of ships sunk, and this includes picking up persons in the water and putting them in lifeboat….
Only ... from personal experience [can a man] take the necessary measures without a preliminary process of trial and error..
The north German does not go in for extremes. He has broader horizons than the men from the mountains of Bavaria and Austria..