Skip to content

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.

— Karl Dönitz

Another quote →

More quotes by Karl Dönitz

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.

I'm an old man at 54, without teeth, and with rheumatism.

By placing these people with foreign ideas in camps, German blood was saved. Would it have been better to have a civil war?

The north German does not go in for extremes. He has broader horizons than the men from the mountains of Bavaria and Austria.

I would rather eat dirt than see my grandchildren grow up in the filthy, poisonous atmosphere of Jewry.

All Karl Dönitz quotes →

Attribution

Quote text and notes from Wikiquote: Karl Dönitz (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Source quality and labels are our own summary of what Wikiquote records.