Hitler's Henchmen - The Admiral - Karl Doenitz

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"Hitler's Henchmen" is a six-part series that portrays the men who aided Adolf Hitler in his rise to power and serviced the infernal machinery of the Third Reich. The Nuremberg Trials play an important role here: in a historical first, the International War Crimes Tribunal passed judgment on leading Nazi paladins for their unparalleled atrocities while exposing to the world the infamy of the Hitler regime and its leaders. ZDF uses newly discovered archive material and interviews with surviving family members and Nazi insiders to draw historical psychograms of Hitler's closest aides. Conceived as a sequel to our six-part series "Hitler," "Hitler's Henchmen" offers in-depth personal and political profiles of six men who became architects of the destruction of Europe. Portraits of the men who carried out Hitler's plans: ZDF's sequel about the men who consolidated Hitler's reign and turned his plans into action. They wove the complicities and plots without which Hitler could have never perpetrated the crime of the century. They helped to sway the judges and the bureaucrats, the armed forces and the police, the scientists and the industrialists, the students and their teachers to the regime's ways of thinking. What kind of people were they? What inspired them to serve a corrupt administration with such enthusiasm and devotion? How did their careers unfold and their fates end? The series answers these and other questions by examining six of Hitler's cohorts. The portraits of these aides-de-camp provide viewers with a revealing psychogram of "Hitler's willing executors." The films present for the first time newly discovered film clips and sound recordings from international archives. Recent revelations provided by historical research and interviews with former coworkers, relatives, and victims are also shown.
Hitler's Henchmen 1 Episodes:
1. The Propagandist/Firebrand - Joseph Goebbels - German with English Subtitles
2. The Marshall - Hermann Goering - German with English Subtitles
3. The Deputy - Rudolf Hess - German with English Subtitles
4. The Executioner - Heinrich Himmler - German with English Subtitles
5. The Admiral - Karl Doenitz - German with English Subtitles
6. The Architect - Albert Speer - German with English Subtitles
Hitler's Henchmen II Episodes:
1. Bureaucrat of Murder - Adolf Eichmann - German with English Subtitles
2. The Secretary - Martin Bormann - German with English Subtitles
3. The Corruptor of Youth - Baldur von Schirach - German with English Subtitles
4. Diplomat of Evil - Joachim von Ribbentrop - German with English Subtitles
5. Doctor of Death - Josef Mengele - German and English with Swedish Subtitles
6. Arbitrator over Death and Life - Roland Freisler - German with English Subtitles

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• world
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• Doenitz
• Navy

[dieritterkreuz44]

Doenitz should NEVER be lumped in with people such as Himmler, Heydrich, Keitel, etc. He was a sailor, pure and simple. He served his country. The ten years he recieved for war crimes...if there is even such a thing...completely negates the verdicts handed down at Nuremberg. He, among all the other defendants, was the only one who didnt have blood on their hands. He was a good, fair, and just man! As a former American submariner, I salute you Grand Admiral.

[mikelareau]

@SemenWhoCanSee

And they didn't really do a good job until Enigma machines were captured aboard disables U-boats.

[assdickmkgee]

They're really pushing it to try and make Doenitz look villainous in this one. I enjoy these documentaries but I gotta admit they're pretty schlocky.

That's probably why I like them.

[micropickletwo]

Admiral Lutjens refused to give Hitler the nazi party salute when he met him. He gave the traditional naval salute. There were some good men in the german navy. Sad they served in such an awful cause, but you don't get to pick where you are born.

[kiraofthewasteland]

blow me down XD

[shortist2003]

Admiral Erich Raeder met with Hitler just prior to the war, advising him the Kriegsmarine was not ready for war, and pressed for more surface warships. Hitler refused, whereupon Raeder said to his staff, "It is not ours, now, but to die gallantly."

Raeder received life-in-prison at Nuremberg. Of course, the war criminals Churchill and "Bomber" Harris, neither of which knew a civilian target they did not desire to annihilate, are heroes.

[sheemsheem]

Doenitz...King of the Atlantic

[grvolans]

i believe that. i saw footage on what the russians did to the German people after they took Berlin. they were like animals.

[hungarygator]

@grvolans The russians sank a passenger ship loaded full of civilian refugees fleeing the wanton rape and murder the Red Army dealt to any civilians in their path. This sinking resulted in the single greatest loss of life at sea in history. They also sank a clearly marked hospital ship packed full of wounded soldiers and civilians. So obviously they could not have thought sinking passenger ships was a crime since none of theirs were ever charged...

[hungarygator]

They tried hard but failed to make their case. Donitz was not responsible for any crimes against humanity and was never even charged with any. The only thing he was convicted of was waging unrestricted submarine warfare which every other warring power also did. British and American military officers were appalled at his conviction and said so openly and repeatedly. His only real "crime" was being on the losing side.

[grvolans]

didn't the german navy sink passenger ships? that may be why he had to serve some time.

[STOPTHEEU]

@dieritterkreuz44 I agree with you. I come from a strong Naval family. I almost joined the RN, My father was in the RN, our family dates back to Lord Nelson who is in our family tree. Doenitz wasn't a real Nazi. He was a Naval man doing his job but for a nation with a crazy man in power and an insane ideology. In actual fact he was a damn site more intelligent than the real Nazi's were. He knew we had Enigma but Hitler wouldn't listen!