The Kriegsmarine's senior hierarchy offers a possible channel through which foreign cooperation could affect German politics. Karl Dönitz is contrasted with Günther Lütjens, who is described as having challenged Hitler before the war and as being treated unfairly in the film Sink the Bismarck! Extended service beside British, American, French, and Italian officers could create professional relationships and expose German personnel to different institutions and assumptions. The counterfactual claim remains limited: contact might stiffen opposition inside the service, but it could not remove Nazi control or guarantee a break with the regime.
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Kriegsmarine contact and internal dissent
Working beside Allied navies might broaden German officers' professional ties and strengthen internal resistance to the Nazi regime's most extreme choices.