Salut Danb,
Donitz à mon sens était le plus grand géostratège militaire Allemand de la WWII.
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During the early war, German U-Boat successes against British and American shipping were so remarkable, that on January 1943, the Allies issued a decree in Casablanca which made the defeat of German U-Boats a number one priority. Winston Churchill, the then Prime Minister of Britain was most noted in his speech summarizing the German U-boats and the Battle of the Atlantic as "The only thing that ever really frightened me during the war was the U-boat peril".
Grand Admiral Karl Donitz, commander of the German U-Boat force understood the potential of the submarine’s unconventional ability, and believed Germany could fight a naval power like Great Britain, and win. He was the only officer in the German High Command who viewed that victory in the Battle of the Atlantic could only be achieved by German U-Boats, and such a victory would lead to an early conclusion of the Second World War. Others did not share his view and held the notion that big guns and the unsinkable battleship was key for control of the high seas.
In fighting for supremacy in the Battle of the Atlantic, the Admiral was proven right, as the super battleships of Germany such as the Bismarck and Graf Spee had only made headlines as being hunted down and sunk by the Royal Navy, while the German U-boats continued to inflict heavy losses on Allied shipping. The most famous element of the Battle of the Atlantic was the “Wolf Pack”, or Rudeltaktik as the Germans called it. It had brought such devastation on the high seas and was based mainly upon the works of the Admiral.
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Le sonar était bien pratique pour détecter les sous-marins.
Les radars aussi...nombre de pertes (u-boats allemands) sont le fait de cette remarquable & nouvelle merveille technologique à l'époque.
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