Raeder turned naval honour into personal coercion

Raeder used a staff officer to follow another officer on his honeymoon in Italy and pressure him to commit suicide. The target had divorced and remarried, which Raeder treated as a dishonour serious enough to justify the campaign. The target may actually have been an army officer, sharpening the sense that Raeder exceeded even the boundaries of his own service. The episode turns abstract traditionalism into a concrete example of coercive and deeply damaging senior leadership.