Admiral Karl Doenitz, successor to Hitler during the week between the Fuhrer’s death and the overrunning of Germany by the Allied armies, was released today from imprisonment in Berlin where he had ...

Adolf Hitler last week served notice that his submarine campaign is the most dangerous weapon in Germany’s armory of defense, and that to beat it the U.S. and Britain must bring their best might & ...

In a corner of northwestern Germany the German war spirit still throve. Around the red brick Marine & Signal School in Flensburg milled armed German soldiers and sailors. Sometimes they drilled ...

An extremely rare and operational Nazi Enigma encryption machine, famously cracked by Allied codebreakers during World War II ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: Admiral Raeder, who had been building up the Kriegsmarine for more than a decade, tendered his resignation rather than follow the order. Appointed in his place was ...

Seventy-five years ago on May 7, 1945, German General Alfred Jodl signed the unconditional surrender document in Reims, France, ending World War II in Europe. The document immediately ended all ...

January 1943: Admiral Karl Dönitz, head of the Nazis’ U-boat fleet, has brought Britain to the brink of starvation by ruthlessly destroying close to a thousand of their merchant ships. If the ...

On April 29, 1945, during World War II, American soldiers liberated the Dachau concentration camp; the same day, Adolf Hitler married Eva Braun and designated Admiral Karl Doenitz president.