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

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

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

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

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

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

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

- Karl Donitz

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

- Karl Donitz

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…

- Karl Donitz