Karl Dönitz Announcement of German Capitulation- 8 May 1945
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- In his testament, Hitler made Grand Admiral Karl Dönitz, the Chief of the German Navy since 1943, his successor as President of the Reich.
Dönitz announced this via Radio during a Broadcast from May 1st, 1945, which was broadcasted from Hamburg.
A few days later, on May 8th, he spoke again over the radio to announce the German capitulation. As Hamburg was captured by the British on May 2nd, this broadcast was broadcasted from Flensburg, the last major German city that was still in German hands.
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What a passionate and great speaker. I don't understand German, but Karl Donitz makes German sound beautiful.
he's well-spoken considering the circumstances. Never really was in the line of succession and no one would've thought he would be the leader at the end of it. His hands were tied with his government. He knew the party was done for and the allies were going to cut the head off the snake
@@zacharycook2674 Fun fact, the reason Hitler appointed Karl Donitz as head of state at the end of the war is because Donitz was not part of Hitler's inner political circle. Hitler at the end of the war could not trust people such as Himmler, or Goering for example.
You can turn on English subtitles
@@SeamHead33 he still doesn’t understand german
My brother in christ. He was a nazi
Quite a good speech. It laid out what the path was ahead for the German people. The reference to Germany living some day in a peaceful Europe was certainly prophetic.
Although in the past nearly a decade or so it has become alarmingly less peaceful.
The thing I remember most is, NOW, that they have been thoroughly defeated, now they talk of peace and unity. After a decade of war, that THEY started, a decade of crimes against humanity, a decade of the destruction of most of Europe. Now, they talk of peace.
it's not really germany anymore
@@nodarkthings What do you mean by that?
if it was up to Donitz, Germany would have been burned to the ground and yet he talks about suffering and his concerns for the german people
What a wonderful speech even in the time of such distress and defeat.
He should not have talked so much but instead he should have fought.
Vielen Dank für die Hochladung!
Und fürs runterholen erst
This sounds like it was made on a wire recorder, which was a precursor to magnetic tape. The fidelity wasn't very good but it was one of the few ways to capture live broadcasts.
Danke für die uploads👍
Luckily Admiral Karl Dönitz survived the war and lived until 1980. He fought in both world wars.
GRAND Admiral Karl Dönitz 😏
We must never, ever forget the past or it will repeat itself, again and again and again.
You´re Right, Man!
Human nature will be with us to the end why do people get into drink drugs gambling careless driving when the risks are known?
Greatest radio broadcast
It is more direct comparing japan emperor hirohito's surrender speech
The allies allowed him to have some power in Flensburg his arrest 23. may. Many german young soldier was killed in that month. Approved by Karl in Flensburg. Very sad.
Danke!
Thanks for your channel. Is it possible to have hitlers speech on 1st january 1945?
As the channel's owner said , TH-cam will probably delete the entire channel for any Mustache Uncle's content
A very gracious, moral, forthright and realistic address, well befitting a head of state in his circumstances. He might have added an order that no German should resort to sabotage, assassination, looting, or wrecking, but should cooperate with the occupiers, but that's a quibble.
2:45 wtf someone shot his shotgun in the background?
@@razor3079 But there’s a cocking sound right after the first shot.
I think the German chancellor’s speech after the balkan war in 1941 would be a great addition!
The speech is very relevant and there are many parallels to today…..
Yes, there are many interesting speeches from the Austrian painter, but im not touching him, TH-cam doesnt like that^^
democratic censorship forbids to publish whatever there is for historical reference
@@GermanWWIIArchive have you tried other platforms?
@@MansteinPlan1940 bitchite is great platform. Lots of the old big dogs who were the main publishers of ww2 content have moved over to there
@@GermanWWIIArchive totally understood. The leftoids don't want people to know history to see them repeating it
Unfortunately it was too late for such government. If only the conspirators ring could’ve delivered it way before…
That is the only speech I have ever heard by a leader in the Third Reich that was honest and made sense. It’s sad that he couldn’t be honest and sensible with his fellow citizens and the rest of the world before then.
What happened to the video yesterday?
It got deleted by TH-cam for Hatespeech.
@@GermanWWIIArchive have you consider moving to telegram and posting your vids there?
@@GermanWWIIArchive Welch Schande...
at 1:02 and 2:47 you can hear bullets in the backgroud (I think those noises are bulltes because they are louder than the radio low quality noises)
There was no combat near Flensburg. It was not bullets being fired.
Basically saying " Sorry, Not Sorry"
This Bros mic sounds like a recording from 1945. Poor Dönitz can't afford a good gamer headset.
Very different from Goebbel's
Doenitz speech translated: Sooo.....we sort of lost...eh no hard feelings? Eh?
Yeah, sorry most of your man died for us to reach not even conditional surrender. Also, we killed a bunch of innocent people but meh, who cares right?
instead of being hung. He was a committed Nazi but was smart enough to distance himself from the worst excesses rather like Speer. He got the job fter Hitlere realised Himmler and Goering, were, separately, plotting against him
Don't forget: "I might not be in office. I'd like to be in office. Maybe they'll let me stay in office?"
His main concern seems to be that he should remain in office. He was arrested a fortnight later.
I doubt he was such a fool to think he'd be left in office. By the way, not many know that the demand for unconditional surrender (something unheard of earlier) initially was a western demand (or, more exactly, American demand), not the Soviet/Stalin one. Stalin agreed to that only some time later when it became crystal clear that Germany lost the war and the only question left had been the price of victory. Unconditional surrender meant first and foremost that America had the intention of radically and irreversibly reformat Germany, totally and absolutely subjugating it to its control. So key Nazi figures were absolutely useless. Only the second and even more likely third echelon of Nazi ruling elite had chances of staying somehow in power but in a totally different role. For instance, some German generals but no field marshals. And u w.
Was he charged with war crimes?
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I appreciate ur work. Hats off
Thank you for the content. It is hard to find speeches of some noted people of those times. I request more of goebbels speeches, and also adolf hitler speeches please
I have no idea what he was trying to say. It was a uniquely bad moment in history to appeal to German spirit and nation. I would simply say it is time to face our reckoning and do soul searching and I would shut up.
And they did. It's over.
Why did it took some days after Hitlers dead to capitulate?
you're kidding right ?
on the day germany capitulated most soldiers and civilians found out he commited suicide .. sure the soviets knew it a little bit earlier but only because some german generals took his dead as a chance to capitulate and hoped that they could use this to stand in a better light
Doenitz still hoped that he can make a deal with the Allies and that they would fight together the Soviets. He later told the fairy tale that he wanted to evacuate german civilians from the Soviets, but this was not true. The famous "Unternehmen Hannibal" where thousands of refugees where evacuated had the goal to bring important war material back in the motherland. The refugees just came along but he later claimed that it was only because of them and this is also a reason why many saw Doenitz as a "Good Nazi" but he absolutly wasn't
@@jester4133 The numbers of people, soldiers and material moved in Hannibal make it seem to me that the primary goal was evacuating the populace. Do you really think any country in that situation would make no attempt to bring back important war material?
1:00 Am I the only one hearing gunshots?
This was recorded in Flensburg which never saw any fighting during the war. What youre hearing is most likely some flaws in the recording itself.
@@GermanWWIIArchive Alright cause I was gonna say.
Hard decision how can someone shoulder all this 😫 😩 😢
So he still used the term "German Reich" even though it no longer existed?
It existed on paper at least until the capitulation was signed or maybe even until the peace treaty of Paris on the 10th of February 1947.
@@francisdec1615 23 May 1945 Flesburg's government was arrested so it is officially last day of Nazi Germany!
still had troops that controlled central germany and parts of neighborng countries
This man was a devoted Nazi..and not a statesman.
Hitler should've just passed on his position from the outset of the war. He clearly wasn't mentally equipped for it. Dönitz comes off as so much more sound and level-headed in this recording.. Imagine if he had been Führer instead
Imagine if the german people hadn't been so impressed with hitler.
@@cba4389 They were subjected to a lot of propaganda and terror, too. But in fact Hitler lost the 1932 presidential election to Paul von Hindenburg, who later appointed him chancellor. Hitler never got a majority vote.
A sad day ......
no regret ? hummmm......
After all that hard fighting and adherence to his beliefs? Shouldn't be surprised.
In other words: 'As for that thousand-year-Reich thing? Oops'.
☮
note how he makes himself indispensible. blood up to his armpits---but now? Minister of butter and potatoes.
la propaganda che riecheggia fino agli ultimi minuti.
Não sei porque motivo, o tribunal de Nuremberga não condenou este gajo à pena capital, tal como alguns outros nazis que foram menos culpados do que ele. Saudações de Aveiro-Portugal.
Não foi o único, generais como o Manstein ou ministros como Hess ou Speer também apenas foram mandados para a prisão. Ele serviu o seu país como todos os alemães o fizeram. Só por perderem a guerra não significa que estavam errados, quem ganha as guerras é que escreve a história e faz a justiça como a quer.
@@gdal3 Quicá.
@@gdal3 Só por Curiosidade, você é português?
@@gdal3 Estavam errados. A História não é 'escrita pelos vencedores', é escrita pela realidade: o terceiro reich iniciou uma guerra de agressão contra mais de 10 países e tentou refazer a Europa e o mundo à sua imagem, recorrendo a um plano de extermínio sistemático de milhões de pessoas como nunca antes se tinha visto - outras potências atrocidades nas suas conquistas, o terceiro reich fê-lo de uma forma mais organizada e sistemática. A justiça não foi aplicada de forma perfeita mas a responsabilidade colectiva é dos milhões de alemães que participaram, directa ou indirectamente, no projecto totalitário, genocida e expansionista do terceiro reich. Nesse aspecto, a democracia alemã actual é um dos melhores exemplos de como lidar com um passado de brutalidade.
Após o conflito, Dönitz foi indiciado como um dos principais criminosos de guerra nazistas nos Julgamentos de Nuremberg, sendo acusado de conspiração para cometer crimes contra a paz e crimes de guerra e contra a humanidade; planejamento, iniciação e perpetuação de uma guerra de agressão; e crimes contra as leis da guerra. Ele foi inocentado das acusações de crimes contra a humanidade, mas foi considerado culpado por crimes de guerra e contra a paz.[3] Sentenciado a dez anos de prisão, se mudou para Hamburgo quando foi libertado e viveu lá até sua morte, em 1980, aos 89 anos de idade.
RIP Herr Großadmiral
Grand Admiral Dönitz served in the Turkish army during the First World War.
Bullshit
A fascist.
Where women cried: Titanic
Where men cried:
Rip Germany
Dönitz was a patriotic man whose country happened to be taken over by the Nazis.
He was clearly a great leader, as his speeches demonstrate. Illustrates what Germany could have been, had things not gone so badly in the 1930s.
He was a loyal Nazi whose submarines sank civil ships and sometimes didn't rescue the drowning sailors. Learn history, don't be ignorant.
@@deran1983 You mean the same warfare performed by the Allies in the Pacific? Spare me.
@@drowssapma Idiot.
@@drowssapma two wrongs don’t make a right
@@deran1983 You clearly don't understand the difference between being in the military of a country and the political parties that run a country.
Yep, those two little speeches earned him 10 years in the slammer.
Then he got out, lived a good long life and died of boredom at the age of 89. Not bad.
I thought Goebbels was well-spoken but all rubbish.
But...but....the Wehrmatch wasn't nazi!
Eh, who cares at this point?
Actually, it was. Nazi Germany was a totalitarian state. The eagle with swastika was on Wehrmacht uniforms. The Nazi swastika flag was the German national flag. Hitler was the commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces. And all Armed Forces personnel had to swear an oath of obedience and loyalty to Hitler.
@@septimiusseverus343 History
He still defends the lie that the attack on the Sovjet union was necessary in order to keep the bolshevists out of europe, while in fact that attack ( operation Barbarossa) was an invitation for Stalin to invade europe.
Damned if you do. Damned if you don't. Pretty sure Stalin mentioned how he lamented not being able to continue West and take all of Europe.
The soviets were preparing an invasion of Europe, our history books lied to us.
Stalin wanted to attack in 1942 even if Hitl3r would not have done it!
Stalin was going to attack West and that was the whole point of talking Hitler into invading Poland so stalin would have a reason. stalin didn't know how bad russian military was just like putin today.
@@cba4389 There is no evidence of the USSR planning an invasion of Europe. Not to mention that communism & socialism actually spread to Russia from Europe, lol.
Crocodiles tears/ They were delusional guys until the very end/
A criminal
He was found not guilty of committing crimes against humanity, but guilty of committing crimes against peace and war crimes against the laws of war. He was sentenced to ten years' imprisonment; after his release, he lived in a village near Hamburg until his death in 1980, after a prolonged illness.
Admiral Nimitz stated that the allied navies fought the war mostly in the same manner as the Nazi navy, and this was taken into account in his verdict.
Incredible that this guy talks about justice and peaceful Europe after his Nazi Friends destroyed all Europe and showed no mercy and justice to jews, polish and russian people when they burned Europe. Like 1918 when the German Military not realized that they had no more Influence doenitz as well really believed he could have a Future. Fortunately the Americans and UK counterparts understood that he is no honorable pruzzian Military and finally condamned him to death in nuremberg.
No they didn't do that
He served 10 years. Plus, Admiral Nimitz testified FOR Donitz.
@@tmkontka the Germans were a criminal people of murderers and thieves
That justice and peacful Europe really happened
Is your comment fan fiction?
Interesting that he thought he had some chance of remaining president. Didn't comprehend that his next stop was the gallows!
What gallows, he went to prison in Spandau for some time and was released.
American fool ! Learn history.
You're grasp of history is pathetic, clearly you are confusing him with someone else, there are multiple interviews with him up until the 70s at least
@@PhonicArchaeology You are right and these internet people are so ignorant
10 years of prison and that was all. He remained a Nazi until his death.
Not an enviable position making that speech.