Dönitz: The Last Führer (47 page)

7a
One of the major influences in Dönitz’s life,
Vizeadmiral
von Loewenfeld in 1939

7b
Karl Dönitz in 1939

8a
Dönitz as BdU (his Flag-Lieutenant seated right) listening to the report of a U-boat Commander back from a war cruise in 1940

8b
… congratulating a Commander on his Knight’s Cross

9a
Grand Admiral Karl Dönitz, C-in-C
Kriegsmarine
, 1943. Compare this with his portrait as
Kapitän zur See
and FdU (
plate 6
) only four years earlier

9b
Relaxing with ‘Wolf’ in the grounds of his Dahlem. Berlin, home

9c
On a walk with Günther Hessler, his three nieces and ‘Wolf’ in the country around ‘Koralle’

10a
The bomb-proof U-boat bunkers built at all Biscay bases

10b
U-boats berthed in their bomb-proof concrete pens in Lorient

11a
And out in the open Atlantic: U 175 meets her end

11b
HMS
Starling
carrying out a depth charge attack in February 1944

12a
With the Nibelungen: Hitler (left), Göring (foreground), Dönitz (centre)

12b
In Rome, March 1943. The German Ambassador and Admiral Riccardi, Italian Navy C-in-C, are just behind Dönitz, Admirals Meendsen-Bohlken and Ruge behind them