Download or read book Erich Raeder written by Keith W Bird and published by Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2013-05-11 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From 1928 to 1943, Erich Raeder led the German navy during the last turbulent years of the Weimar Republic, the rise of Hitler, and through World War II, yet until now there has not been a full-length biography written about him. This study draws on archival resources and the rich scholarship of German naval history over the past five decades to review the evolution of Raeder's concept of naval strategy and his attempts to achieve the political and military means necessary to attain the navy's global naval ambitions. While previous histories have viewed Raeder as a product of the Wilhelmian era and heir to Admiral von Tirpitz's sea power ideology, this work clearly demonstrates the navy's affinity with Hitler's fascism. Author Keith Bird refutes Raeder's own argument that his navy was non-political and independent and shows him to be a political activist and the architect of German naval policy. For the first time, Raeder's strict leadership of the navy after 1928 and his relationship to Hitler and the National Socialist state is placed in the context of Raeder's formative years as an Imperial naval officer, his First World War combat experience, and his critical role in the survival and development of the post-war Reichsmarine. The author traces the impact of Hitler's influence on both the pace and nature of naval rearmament 1933-1939 and the conduct of the Kriegsmarine in war as well as Raeder's furtive attempts to influence Germany's strategic thinking in favor of a maritime strategy. Blinded by his need to justify the navy's existence and achieve his vision of world power, Raeder was ultimately defeated by the contradictions in his own policies as well as Hitler's and the realities of Germany's resources and military necessities.
Download or read book Erich Raeder written by Keith Bird and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Grand Admiral written by Erich Raeder and published by Da Capo Press, Incorporated. This book was released on 2001-02-21 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The personal memoir of the Commander in Chief of the German Navy from 1935 until his final break with Hitler in 1943.
Download or read book Admiral Erich Raeder and the Reconstruction of the German Navy 1928 1933 written by Robert S. Young and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Grand Admiral Erich Raeder written by Robert H. Buchanan and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book My Life written by Erich Raeder and published by Arno Press. This book was released on 1960 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The leader of the German naval forces until 1943 recounts his life, which coincided with the major developments of German naval power. He comments on the political and internationally significant events of the years after the Versailles Treaty, which he holds responsible for the rise of Nazism, and presents character sketches and impressions of some of the leading German political figures, including the Kaiser, Hitler, and Goring. He also comments on the Nurnberg trials of war criminals. With a foreward by H. Kent Hewitt, Admiral, U.S. Navy (Retired).
Download or read book Hitler s Forgotten Flotillas written by Lawrence Paterson and published by Grub Street Publishers. This book was released on 2018-04-30 with total page 491 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A vast amount of information on the German Naval Security Fleet, sicherungsstreitkräfte, producing what is a unique review in depth.” —Firetrench.com This study of the Kriegsmarine’s Sicherungsstreitkräfte, their security forces, fills a glaring gap in the study of the German navy in World War II. This wide array of vessels included patrol boats, minesweepers, submarine hunters, barrage breakers, landing craft, minelayers, and even the riverine flotilla that patrolled the Danube as it snaked towards the Black Sea. These vessels may not have provided the glamour associated with capital ships and U-boats, but they were crucial to the survival of the Kriegsmarine at every stage of hostilities. As naval construction was unable to keep pace with the likely demand for security vessels, Grossadmiral Erich Raeder turned to the conversion of merchant vessels. For example, trawlers were requisitioned as patrol boats (Vorpostenboot) and minesweepers (Minensucher), while freighters, designated Sperrbrecher, were filled with buoyant materials and sent to clear minefields. Submarine hunters (U-Boot Jäger) were requisitioned fishing vessels. More than 120 flotillas operated in wildly different conditions, from the Arctic to the Mediterranean, and eighty-one men were to be awarded the Knights Cross; some were still operating after the cessation of hostilities clearing German minefields. The author deals with whole subject at every level, documenting organizational changes, describing the vessels, and recounting individual actions of ships at sea, while extensive appendices round off this major new work. “Paterson offers a well researched narrative detailing both the large scale aspect of Security Forces operations interspersed with examples of key or typical engagement examples.” —The International Journal of Maritime History
Download or read book The era of Erich Raeder 1894 1943 dreams of world empire written by Robert Harold Buchanan and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Tales from Spandau written by Norman J. W. Goda and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher description
Download or read book Adolf Hitler and Erich Raeder on a Boat written by and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Description: Adolf Hitler and Erich Raeder on a boat. "Der Kanzler und Admiral Raeder bei der deutschen Flotte". Location unknown. No date.
Download or read book The Seven Men of Spandau written by Jack Fishman and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In 1945 seven men, once among the most powerful on earth, were locked away in a vast prison built to hold more than 600 inmates, surrounded by every conceivable escape-proof precaution. Tried and convicted for attempting to enslave the world, they were the last of what Winston Churchill had called the Hitler gang."--Goodreads.com.
Download or read book The Era of Erich Raeder 1894 1943 written by Robert H. Buchanan and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Era of Erich Raeder written by Robert H. Buchanan and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The German Decision to Invade Norway and Denmark written by Earl F. Ziemke and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hitlerland written by Andrew Nagorski and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this work, Nagorski chronicles Hitler's rise to power and Germany's march to the abyss, as seen by Americans--diplomats, military, expats, visiting authors, Olympic athletes--who watched horrified and up close.
Download or read book The Battle of the Atlantic written by Jonathan Dimbleby and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 585 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The only thing that ever really frightened me during the war was the U-boat peril," wrote Winston Churchill in his monumental history of World War Two. Churchill's fears were well-placed-the casualty rate in the Atlantic was higher than in any other theater of the entire war. The enemy was always and constantly there and waiting, lying just over the horizon or lurking beneath the waves. In many ways, the Atlantic shipping lanes, where U-boats preyed on American ships, were the true front of the war. England's very survival depended on assistance from the United States, much of which was transported across the ocean by boat. The shipping lanes thus became the main target of German naval operations between 1940 and 1945. The Battle of the Atlantic and the men who fought it were therefore crucial to both sides. Had Germany succeeded in cutting off the supply of American ships, England might not have held out. Yet had Churchill siphoned reinforcements to the naval effort earlier, thousands of lives might have been preserved. The battle consisted of not one but hundreds of battles, ranging from hours to days in duration, and forcing both sides into constant innovation and nightmarish second-guessing, trying desperately to gain the advantage of every encounter. Any changes to the events of this series of battles, and the outcome of the war-as well as the future of Europe and the world-would have been dramatically different. Jonathan Dimbleby's The Battle of the Atlantic offers a detailed and immersive account of this campaign, placing it within the context of the war as a whole. Dimbleby delves into the politics on both sides of the Atlantic, revealing the role of Bletchley Park and the complex and dynamic relationship between America and England. He uses contemporary diaries and letters from leaders and sailors to chilling effect, evoking the lives and experiences of those who fought the longest battle of World War Two. This is the definitive account of the Battle of the Atlantic.
Download or read book Erich H A Raeder written by and published by . This book was released on 1936 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Autographed photograph Germany Erich Johann Albert Raeder (born April 24, 1876; died November 6, 1960) was a naval leader in Germany before and during World War II. Raeder attained the highest possible naval rank, that of Grand Admiral, in 1939, becoming the first person to hold that rank since Alfred von Tirpitz. Raeder led the Kriegsmarine (German Navy) for the first half of the war, but resigned in 1943 and was replaced by Karl Donitz. He was sentenced to life in prison at the Nuremberg Trials, but was released early due to failing health.
