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KARL DÖNITZ

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KARL DÖNITZ
<p><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:windowtext'>KARL DÖNITZ </span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial; color:windowtext'><BR><BR></span><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family: Arial;color:windowtext;text-transform:uppercase'>Grand Admiral Ponders July 20 Plot</span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt; font-family:Arial;color:windowtext'><BR><BR>(1891-1980). German grand admiral and creator of Germany’s World War II U-boat fleet and who for a few days succeeded Adolf Hitler as German head of state. TMsS, 7pp, double spaced, 4to, n.p., Aug 18, 1970. Extraordinary content. Describing his reactions to the first reports of the attempt by a group of army officers to assassinate Hitler, Dönitz states in part, “...<i>There is some justification for the man who rises in revolt against the person of the head of the state whom he holds responsible for the misfortunes of his country. But in no circumstances is he justified in abrogating to himself the right to endanger or deliberately send to their deaths fellow countrymen who have no more influence on the government’s action than he himself, by going over to the enemy and thereby contributing to the downfall of his own country. The betrayer of military secrets is a pariah, despised by every man and every nation. Even the enemy whom he serves has no respect for him, but merely uses him. Any nation which is not uncompromisingly unanimous in its condemnation of this type of treachery is undermining the very foundation of its own state, whatever its form of government may be</i>...” More excellent content. Boldly signed at conclusion, adding date. Fine.</span></p>