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New page: Donitz was the commander of the U-Boat arm of the German Navy during the Second World War, having served as a U-Boat captain during the First World War. Upon Hitler's suicide, ...
Donitz was the commander of the [[U-Boat]] arm of the German Navy during the [[Second World War]], having served as a U-Boat captain during the [[First World War]]. Upon Hitler's suicide, he became Reichsfuhrer of the collapsing [[Nazi]] state, and headed the shadowy German government that subsisted for several weeks at [[Flensburg]] following the German surrender. At the [[Nuremberg Trials]] he was sentenced to ten years imprisonment for war crimes, largely related to his policy of unrestricted submarine warfare.