Karl Donitz Quotes


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


Citations

Dönitz, Karl. Memoirs: Ten Years and Twenty Days. Translated by R. H. Stevens, Naval Institute Press, 1990.

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Karl Donitz
Karl Donitz
  • Born: September 16, 1891
  • Died: December 24, 1980
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Karl Dönitz was a German admiral during the Nazi era who briefly succeeded Adolf Hitler as the German head of state in 1945. As Supreme Commander of the Navy beginning in 1943, he played a major role in the naval history of World War II. He was convicted of war crimes at the Nuremberg trials in 1946.