GRAND ADMIRAL KARL DONITZ - AUTOGRAPH NOTE UNSIGNED - HFSID 260541
Price: $200.00
GRAND ADMIRAL KARL DÖNITZ
Autograph Note, unsigned, 5¾x3¾. In full: "Affectionate
greetings also/Mr. Gaffin!". Imprinted in German: "GROSS ADMIRAL (ret.)
DÖNITZ/thanks for the good wishes for Christmas/and the New Year and
affectionately returns them." During WWII, Admiral Karl Dönitz (1891-1980)
developed the idea of fighting in wolf packs. In January 1943,
Hitler replaced Erich Raeder with Dönitz as Commander in Chief of the German
Navy.Dönitz gave permission for a radically improved U-boat to be
built in 1944. Working closely with Albert Speer, the Minister of Armaments,
Germany was producing 42 of these all-electric boats a month by 1945. However,
they were too late to make an impact on the outcome of the war. As the war was
coming to a close, Hitler selected Dönitz to succeed him as Führer. After
forming a new government, Führer Döenitz negotiated Germany's surrender on
May 8, 1945. At the Nuremberg War Crimes Trials, Dönitz was found guilty of war
crimes and was sentenced to ten years in prison. He was 79 when he died on
Christmas Eve in 1980. Two file holes at upper blank margin. Fine
condition.
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