Lütjens delayed personnel instructions that applied Nazi racial law to the Kriegsmarine by leaving them unimplemented in his office. In November 1938 he was one of three flag officers who protested to Raeder in writing after Kristallnacht. Signing such a letter distinguished active dissent from private unease or fear-driven silence. That record complicates a portrait of ideological devotion without removing his responsibility for later service to the regime.
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Personnel policy brought Lütjens into written opposition to racial laws
As a personnel officer, Lütjens delayed enforcement of racial policy and joined a written protest to Raeder after Kristallnacht.