Did he do anything wrong?

>>2161020
Nothing

>>2161020

Ultimately, his tactics centered around looking for ways to discover and strike at undefended or weakly defended shipping rather than coming up with ways to overcome defenses.

When his enemies, principally the British, came up with ways to defend their convoys better, his reaction was inevitably to try to cast his net wider, strike at new, not yet hardened targets. When all targets became hardened, he didn't really have a response. Don't forget, the bulk of U-boat production and U-boat activity was post 1942, well after the Battle of the Atlantic had effectively been lost; and whose only further impact would be to force the Allies to spend more resources on defense that might have been reallocated to other fields.

>>2161020
I'd argue he was the most repulsive man in Germany desu.

Of course he was a hardcore Nazi who supported the extermination of Slavs and Jews. But so did every other high ranking officer of the Third Reich. What makes Doenitz stand out even from most of them was his complete lack of regard for ANY life of any kind.

While 1939-1942 had been an impressive success story, 1943 was a turning point, and by 1944 his men were getting massacred in the Atlantic for virtually no return. Over the course of that year there were 232 U-boats lost, for a paltry 209 ships (and that's including several 50 ton smacks and other small coastal vessels), yet Doenitz kept spending their lives like water. Worse yet, he knew he was getting tens of thousands of men who adored him slaughtered for absolutely no gain and that he could have called it off at any time, but he kept doing so because of pride/honor.

At least when Doenitz's Nazi buddies are killing civilians or working slaves to death, they're justifying it to themselves with "Jewish conspiracy" or "battle of the races" BS. Basically genuinely convincing themselves that their enemies are subhuman and what they're doing is necessary. But Doenitz willingly throwing thousands of men who fulfilled absolutely every one of his criteria for "actually human" (down to "love and worship Doenitz") into the grinder for what he admitted was no gain other than Doenitz thinking it was the (in his own words) "prideful" and "honorable" thing for the navy to do doesn't even have that justification. He sent tens of thousands of "noble Aryans" to watery graves just so he could feel slightly more prideful. It's a whole different level of just not giving a shit.

>>2161095
so zhukov?

>>2161095
Did he shag your grandma or something? I'd rank Doenitz as a typical Prussian officer without much political leanings. He was devoted to his country. If not even the Nuremberg guys could fix him for the rope how come you're so butthurt about him?

>>2162363
>a typical Prussian officer
how does that redeem him

>>2162367
Redeem from what?

>>2161095
Hmmm, interesting opinion. Whatchya think of Rommel?