Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: (Long Patrol) - P7/12: Karl Dönitz

Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies…A Thankless Task or Potential for Greatness?
P8/12: Raffaele de Courten
P9/12: Shigetarō Shimada
P10/12: Koshirō Oikawa
P11/11: Soemu Toyoda
P12/12: Henning von Holtzendorff

00:00 P7/12: Karl Dönitz
17:00 Section 14
34:00 Section 15

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[sharlin]

He got off easy because then folks could point at the Allied sub campaigns and especially the US one against Japan and go "Hello pot, meet kettle." It was probably a very political decision.

[nichtvorhanden]

Dont forget the unique smell of oil, grease and dieseloil in a confined space.

[deeznoots]

Honestly the biggest damnation of Dönitz is that despite having a longer war and more advanced U-boats, he led a worse anti-shipping campaign than the German submarine fleet did in WW1

[matthewgriffiths]

Talking about preparation, especially on the earlier videos, which navies would you say were the most prepared of the major navies, and were any of the smaller forces even more prepared for war when it began?

[ScipioAfricanusI]

Right, he was not evil because he was not a good admiral, it is because he was a zealous Nazi. Can you discuss in more detail Operation Drumbeat and the assault on the US East Coast? This was very successful against the US. Admirals King and Andrews certainly were a part of the U-Boat's success.

[andrewcox]

All of the KM admirals had the problem that they were basically given an impossible task. Dönitz is (or at least appears to be) one of those who believed it was possible. However he was almost russian in his need for central control and continued sending boats out even when it was clear that the battle was lost. That is the reason why I personally don't rate him.

[benwilson]

It was further proved that night was by far the most opportune time for attack, because the U-boats could get within firing range much quicker and more often. Therefore, the night was used basically for concentrated attacks by U-boats, and day attacks were undertaken only in favourable conditions. The comparatively small and manoeuvrable Type VIIC proved itself excellent for night attacks.
The great U-boat aces of that time, such as Kapitaenleutnants Prien, Kretschmer, and Schepke, were all "VIIC drivers." They swore by this type of boat and, when changing boats, did not wish to take over any of the new, large ones. Never, in my opinion, have Germans in the front line been so convinced of the quality of their technical material and type of boat as the German U-boat men in this war.
Grossadmiral Karl Dönitz, Kriegsmarine

[j.thehappywyvern]

If Karl was a mediocre admiral in the British navy, wouldn’t he have been put in charge of the remaining battle cruisers? Ala Beatty ;)

[IronDuke]

He got off easy? Maybe, but what did he do that US submarine commanders did not? All sides in WWII did very nasty things, from the British and US fire bombing of German and Japanese cities to the US dropping nukes on Japan. Sure the Axis started the war, but using crappy British anti gun laws as a example is not a argument. Did The USSR get done for war crimes like shooting all those Polish officers at Katyn, or their mass sexual assaults on German women from 7 to 70 in 1945?

[OchotaJack]

talking of easy solutions to complex problems.
How to manage Germans? By keeping them occupied :D

[streetracer]

Imagine a discussion of Nimitz where you constantly bring up that he worked under Democrat politicians and how much you disagree with Democrat policies… if that sounds weird to you then you know how this video sounds…