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HITLER AND HIS ADMIRALS

BY
Anthony Martienssen

1st. Published 1948
Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd.
London


A blue cloth bound book with blue lettering to spine which is lightly bumped top and bottom but corners still sharp. Covers faded towards edges and lightly rubbed at extremities. Some isolated fox spots to first and last few pages but pages are very clean, bright and tight. Boards in image below show banding from scanner procedures but except for edge fading blue is uniform.

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Immediate post-WW2 appraisal of captured German naval documents

Extract from the Introduction

DURING the final stages of the Second World War, enemy State documents were captured on a scale which was unique in history. Beginning with a more or less accidental haul of papers in Paris, specially organized Intelligence units tracked down one German hiding-place after another, until, with few exceptions, they had recovered most of the German archives.

The largest and most important haul of documents was made at Schloss Tambach, near Coburg, where some 60,000 files of the German naval archives, together with the historians guarding them, were captured. These documents contained practically all the signals, ships' logs, diaries, memoranda, etc., relating to the German Navy from 1868 until the date of their capture—April 1945. When they came to be examined, four sets of papers stood out in importance: the minutes of Hitler's conferences with the Commander-in-Chief of the Navy ; the War Diaries of the Naval Staff; operational orders covering every major activity, military and political, in which the Navy had been concerned; and the personal files of Raeder who had been Commander-in-Chief from 1928 until January 1943.

Contents

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
MAPS
LIST OF SOURCES
INTRODUCTION

PART I
PREPARATIONS FOR WAR
1933—September 1939

CHAPTER

  1. PERSONALITIES
  2. THE PRE-WAR DEVELOPMENT OF THE GERMAN NAVY
  3. PLANNING FOR WAR

PART II
ATTACK
September 1939—October 1942

  1. THE BATTLE OF THE ATLANTIC (1)
  2. THE INVASION OF NORWAY AND DENMARK
  3. OPERATION ` SEA LION '-DUNKIRK AND THE PLANNED INVASION OF ENGLAND
  4. PRELUDE TO RUSSIA (1)
  5. PRELUDE TO RUSSIA (2)
  6. THE BATTLE OF THE ATLANTIC (2)—THE ' BISMARCK ACTION
  7. THE U.S.A. AND A ` SECOND FRONT '-THE ESCAPE FROM BREST
  8. MALTA AND THE MEDITERRANEAN
  9. THE BATTLE OF THE ATLANTIC (3)

PART III
DEFENCE
October 1942—July 1944

  1. MEDITERRANEAN
  2. RAEDER RESIGNS
  3. TUNISIA .
  4. THE BATTLE OF THE ATLANTIC (4)
  5. THE ITALIAN COLLAPSE
  6. DEFENCE AND RETREAT
  7. ANTI-INVASION PREPARATIONS
  8. INVASION

PART IV
DEFEAT
July 1944—May 1945

  1. THE JULY TWENTIETH REVOLT
  2. THE BATTLE OF THE ATLANTIC (5)
  3. 'FORTRESS GERMANY '
  4. ' UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER '

APPENDIX I
APPENDIX II
APPENDIX III
APPENDIX IV

INDEX

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

PLATE I. Hitler and his Admirals
PLATE II. Admiral Graf Spee at Montevideo
PLATE III. The Scuttling of Admiral Graf Spee.
PLATE IV. The Tirpitz
PLATE V. Grand-Admiral Doenitz inspecting U-boat crews
PLATE VI. U-boats surrender at Wilhelmshaven
PLATE VII. U-236 and U-826
PLATE VIII. Grand-Admiral Doenitz at Bordeaux, February 1944.

MAPS

  1. Route Chart of the Pocket Battleships Admiral Graf Spee and Deutschland
  2. Route Chart of U-47, showing sinking of H.M.S. Royal Oak
  3. Sortie of High Seas Fleet during occupation of Norway and Denmark, April 1940
  4. Operation ' Sea Lion '
  5. War situation at the beginning of January 1945, from a German chart

SOURCES

PRINCIPAL DOCUMENTARY SOURCES

  • Fuehrer Conferences on Naval Affairs (issued by the Admiralty)
  • Documentary evidence produced at Nuremberg Trials— general
  • Evidence of Raeder
  • Evidence of Doenitz
  • Statements of German Admirals at the end of the war (issued by the Admiralty):

    Weichold— War in the Mediterranean
    Assmann—Aspects of the War at Sea
    Documents relating to the resignation of Grand- Admiral Raeder

  • Documents relating to war in the Air (issued by Air Ministry)
  • Files of the Frankfurter Zeitung
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