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.

- Karl Donitz

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…

- Karl Donitz

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…

- Karl Donitz

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…

- Karl Donitz

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

- Karl Donitz

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…

- Karl Donitz

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…

- Karl Donitz

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…

- Karl Donitz

Only ... from personal experience [can a man] take the necessary measures without a preliminary process of trial and error.

- Karl Donitz