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“Certainly inside my heart I know degrees of difference. But I can't blame any of these men who share a common fate with me. The big folly of this trial is that it lacks the two men who are to blame for anything which is criminal, namely Hitler and Himmler.”
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Karl Donitz
Source : Said to Leon Goldensohn, July 14, 1946. "The Nuremberg Interviews". Book by Leon Goldensohn, 2004.
#Heart Quotes
#Fate Quotes
#Men Quotes
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“I accept responsibility for U-boat warfare from 1933 onward, and of the entire navy from 1943 on, but to make me responsible for what happened to Jews in Germany, or Russian soldiers on the east front it is so ridiculous all I can do is laugh.”
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Karl Donitz
Source : Said to Leon Goldensohn, July 14, 1946. "The Nuremberg Interviews". Book by Leon Goldensohn, 2004.
#Responsibility Quotes
#Laughing Quotes
#Soldier Quotes
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“With the new weapons like the atom bomb, Russia would have it, too, and use it first. It is a very difficult world. But that trouble is imminent is obvious.”
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Karl Donitz
Source : Said to Leon Goldensohn, July 14, 1946. "The Nuremberg Interviews". Book by Leon Goldensohn, 2004.
#Russia Quotes
#Atoms Quotes
#Use Quotes
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“Your American admiral said that he held me in the highest esteem, and thought that I conducted my defense perfectly. He said through his chief of staff that my conduct was beyond reproach and he had the greatest admiration for me.”
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Karl Donitz
Source : Said to Leon Goldensohn, July 14, 1946. "The Nuremberg Interviews". Book by Leon Goldensohn, 2004.
#Defense Quotes
#Admiration Quotes
#Staff Quotes
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“I read sometime around 1938 of Jewish fines and some street actions against them. But I was too concerned with U-Boats and the naval problems to be concerned about Jews.”
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Karl Donitz
Source : Said to Leon Goldensohn, May 02, 1946. "The Nuremberg Interviews". Book by Leon Goldensohn, 2004.
#Action Quotes
#Problem Quotes
#Boat Quotes
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“I'm an old man at 54, without teeth, and with rheumatism.”
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Karl Donitz
Source : Said to Leon Goldensohn, March 3, 1946. "The Nuremberg Interviews". Book by Leon Goldensohn, 2004.
#Men Quotes
#Teeth Quotes
#Old Man Quotes
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“The north German does not go in for extremes. He has broader horizons than the men from the mountains of Bavaria and Austria.”
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Karl Donitz
Source : Said to Leon Goldensohn, March 3, 1946. "The Nuremberg Interviews". Book by Leon Goldensohn, 2004.
#Men Quotes
#Mountain Quotes
#Doe Quotes
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“No attempt of any kind must be made at rescuing members of ships sunk, and this includes picking up persons in the water and putting them in lifeboats, righting capsized lifeboats, and handing over food and water. Rescue runs counter to the most primitive demands of warfare for the destruction of enemy ships and crews. Be hard, remember that the enemy has no regard for women and children when he bombs German cities.”
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Karl Donitz
Source : Orders issued on September 17, 1942. "The Trial of the Germans". Book by Eugene Davidson, p. 406, 1997.
#Running Quotes
#Children Quotes
#Cities Quotes
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“...Our losses...have reached an intolerable level. The enemy air force played a decisive role in inflicting these high losses.”
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Karl Donitz
#War Quotes
#Loss Quotes
#Air Quotes
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“The reason that the American Navy does so well in wartime, is that war is chaos, and the Americans practice chaos on a daily basis.”
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Karl Donitz
#War Quotes
#Practice Quotes
#Navy Quotes
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“Our losses... have reached and intolerable level.”
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Karl Donitz
#War Quotes
#Loss Quotes
#World Quotes
