Naval Historywith Dr. Alex

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Karl Dönitz

Also searchable as Karl Doenitz, Karl Donitz.

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  1. Bruships 263: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    23:58A personal ranking of German admiralsQ&A
  2. What does the Kreigsmarine look like if it goes all diesel powered & Scharnhorst framed?
    18:29Tirpitz and Holtzendorff as competing strategic modelsChapter
  3. What does the Kreigsmarine look like if it goes all diesel powered & Scharnhorst framed?
    21:34Plan Z and the political choice behind a diesel fleetChapter
  4. Bruships 242: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    1:17:20Raeder and Dönitz as peacetime and wartime naval leadersQ&A
  5. Bruships 237: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    4:51:40Debating Nazi affiliation in German naval leadershipNotable Point
  6. Tragedy & Revenge/Wolfpack... Key Books!
    31:10Selection and Mürwik shaped a U-boat elite identityNotable Point
  7. Tragedy & Revenge/Wolfpack... Key Books!
    37:49The loss of three U-boat aces challenges propagandaNotable Point
  8. Plan Z: What was the Concept of Operations behind it? Tirpitz Mk II or something else?
    38:07Plan Z could not freeze the Royal Navy in 1938Chapter
  9. Italian Submarines of WWII: Shackled Potential or Victims of Geography?
    36:39Dönitz valued the boats but doubted their employmentNotable Point
  10. The Leadership Factor: The Battle of the Barents Sea
    1:48:50The defeat removed Raeder but preserved the fleet in beingChapter
  11. Battle of the Barents Sea: Naval History Live
    3:19:22Hitler, Raeder, and the surface fleet after Barents SeaChapter
  12. Battle of the Barents Sea: Naval History Live
    3:26:28Why new U-boats could not replace lost command experienceNotable Point
  13. Günther Lütjens: The Bismarck's Admiral for its Final Mission
    50:59Building the Kriegsmarine's officer corpsNotable Point
  14. Günther Lütjens: The Bismarck's Admiral for its Final Mission
    1:57:20Operation Berlin and disciplined raider commandChapter
  15. Günther Lütjens, useful idiot or misunderstood leadership?
    20:42Could Lütjens have succeeded Raeder as Kriegsmarine commander?Q&A
  16. Alternate History - Royal Navy retains the Fleet 'units' of Royal Naval Air Service: Patreon 76
    3:14:13Dönitz and reports of defective torpedoesQ&A
  17. Cruiser Policy of the Reichsmarine & Kriegsmarine
    41:49From cruiser rules to wolf packs - and the escort responseNotable Point
  18. Cruiser Policy of the Reichsmarine & Kriegsmarine
    58:07Plan Z's calendars and the Raeder-Dönitz rivalryChapter
  19. Cruiser Policy of the Reichsmarine & Kriegsmarine
    1:30:43Why German cruiser policy failed to cohereNotable Point
  20. Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies – Comment Response 3/4
    0:31Dönitz, war crimes, and command responsibilityQ&A
  21. Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies – Comment Response 3/4
    16:51Dönitz as a political naval leaderNotable Point
  22. Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies – Comment Response 3/4
    18:47Dönitz, central control, and costly persistenceNotable Point
  23. Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies – Comment Response 3/4
    20:19Operation Drumbeat and the U-boat search for weak defencesQ&A
  24. Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies – Comment Response 2/4
    32:30Nagano and Japan's recognized but unaddressed limitsQ&A
  25. Bruships 56: "Walking Softly & Carrying a Big Stick" - Admirals, Diplomacy & Detterence
    2:52:30Dönitz's control makes ignorance of U-boat forced labor implausibleQ&A
  26. Karl Dönitz (on his Birthday) - how capable an Admiral was he?
    14:57Why Dönitz received ten years at NurembergQ&A
  27. Karl Dönitz (on his Birthday) - how capable an Admiral was he?
    21:48What Dönitz did after leaving prisonQ&A
  28. Karl Dönitz (on his Birthday) - how capable an Admiral was he?
    2:24:25Dönitz inherits a failing naval commandChapter
  29. Karl Dönitz (on his Birthday) - how capable an Admiral was he?
    2:27:40Why 300 U-boats would not win the AtlanticChapter
  30. Karl Dönitz (on his Birthday) - how capable an Admiral was he?
    2:43:59Why Dönitz kept the surface fleet afloatNotable Point
  31. Karl Dönitz (on his Birthday) - how capable an Admiral was he?
    2:46:07Dönitz blamed Italian spies before German signals securityNotable Point
  32. Karl Dönitz (on his Birthday) - how capable an Admiral was he?
    2:46:50Operation Torch and the warning Dönitz missedChapter
  33. Karl Dönitz (on his Birthday) - how capable an Admiral was he?
    2:48:45Dönitz kept sending U-boats out in 1945Notable Point
  34. Karl Dönitz (on his Birthday) - how capable an Admiral was he?
    2:53:52Dönitz had reports but did not read the Torch patternNotable Point
  35. Karl Dönitz (on his Birthday) - how capable an Admiral was he?
    3:02:01Raeder or Dönitz as naval chief?Q&A
  36. Karl Dönitz (on his Birthday) - how capable an Admiral was he?
    3:24:53The final verdict: flotilla leader, not admiralQ&A
  37. Karl Dönitz (on his Birthday) - how capable an Admiral was he?
    3:30:41Did Dönitz devise a sound strategy but fail to execute it?Q&A
  38. Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: (Long Patrol) - P7/12: Karl Dönitz
    0:02Dönitz's unusual place in the Nazi collapseChapter
  39. Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: (Long Patrol) - P7/12: Karl Dönitz
    3:24A short First World War U-boat apprenticeshipChapter
  40. Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: (Long Patrol) - P7/12: Karl Dönitz
    6:19Political loyalty and the path to naval commandNotable Point
  41. Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: (Long Patrol) - P7/12: Karl Dönitz
    7:11Family losses at sea and the Nuremberg verdictNotable Point
  42. Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: (Long Patrol) - P7/12: Karl Dönitz
    9:31Raeder, Canaris, and a service chief's dutyNotable Point
  43. Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: (Long Patrol) - P7/12: Karl Dönitz
    22:10A U-boat advocate at the top of the navyNotable Point
  44. Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: (Long Patrol) - P7/12: Karl Dönitz
    47:41Dönitz's legacy: U-boat advocate, not broad naval strategistChapter
  45. Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: (Long Patrol) P3/14: Domenico Cavagnari
    28:47Why Axis naval chiefs need comparisonNotable Point
  46. Shipbuilding through the 1880s-1950s
    3:25:14Why Dönitz and the US Pacific submarine war differQ&A
  47. Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: (Long Patrol) P1/14: Erich Raeder
    15:25A navy planned for later war forced into the Norway gambleNotable Point
  48. Battle of the Atlantic (Redo): Crackpot Schemes or Good Ideas Badly Done p7/7
    1:27Dönitz's 300-submarine force calculationChapter
  49. Bruships 50: A D-Day special with Questions & some New Books from Pen & Sword
    3:01:29A measured assessment of Karl DonitzQ&A
  50. Town Class; big impact with a light footprint
    1:31:13Capability planning is not the same as predicting a warNotable Point
  51. Tsingtao 1939: WWII but in January & against Japan - P4 Introduction to Patreon Video 4...
    22:50Kriegsmarine contact and internal dissentNotable Point
  52. Minesweepers, Torpedo Boats & Gunboats – the ‘Littleships’ of the big war
    2:25:55Why unrestricted submarine warfare complicated the Dönitz caseNotable Point