Pastor Martin Niemöller, Admiral Karl Dönitz, and the German Experience of the 20th Century

This book traces the remarkable lifelong friendship of Martin Niemöller, the Evangelical minister who defied Hitler, and Karl Dönitz, the mastermind of Germany's submarine campaigns in World War II who ultimately succeeded Hitler. From their days as cadets at the German naval academy in the years 1910-1913 to their deaths in the early 1980s, their story is full of ironies and unexpected twists. After World War I, Dönitz served the Weimar Republic and shunned the far right, while Niemöller briefl