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Doenitz
[ dœ-nits ]
noun
- Karl [kah, r, l], 1891–1980, German admiral.
Doenitz
/ ˈdøːnɪts /
noun
- a variant spelling of Dönitz
Example Sentences
Among them was Grand Admiral Karl Doenitz, the first former German president to be put on trial.
Doenitz, who was only a head of state for a few months after the suicide of Nazi leader Adolf Hitler, was convicted in 1946 and spent 10 years in a West Berlin jail.
In 1945, a day after Adolf Hitler took his own life, Admiral Karl Doenitz effectively became sole leader of the Third Reich with the suicide of Hitler’s propaganda minister, Josef Goebbels.
Doenitz, contrary to the Naval Protocol of 1936, ordered U-Boats to sink merchant ships without warning and not hang around to rescue survivors.
German naval commander Karl Doenitz successfully used the defense during the post-war Nuremberg trials to avoid sentencing for ordering his navy not to rescue survivors of German submarine attacks.
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