For educational purposes<br /><br />To some Doenitz was the saviour of millions of refugees from the East, to others a cold technocrat of the war. <br /><br />To the Allied forces he was a war criminal. In his own mind he saw himself as an apolitical soldier doing his duty.<br /><br />Karl Doenitz was Hitler's Admiral of the Fleet and the creator of the U-boat. <br /><br />Before Hitler committed suicide in the Reich Chancellery bunker, he appointed Karl Doenitz as his successor. Powerless and on the verge of defeat Doenitz's reign lasted just 23 days.<br /><br />The Allies did not permit him to do anything more than wind up the war and at Nuremberg trials accuse him war crimes against humanity.<br /><br />Contemporary witnesses and his nephew Klaus Hessler speak for the first time on film about the largely unknown successor to Hitler.
