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Doenitz
[dœ-nits]
noun
Karl 1891–1980, German admiral.
Doenitz
/ ˈdøːnɪts /
noun
a variant spelling of Dönitz
Example Sentences
“Gabriel Armendariz, another designer, comes from Mexico and brings a Latino cultural background. Halle Doenitz, our structural engineer, is a Caucasian American woman. MZ Construction has two partners, one from Hong Kong and one from mainland China, and Larry Ton, our contractor, has an arts background.”
Among them was Grand Admiral Karl Doenitz, the first former German president to be put on trial.
Doenitz, who was only a head of state for a few months after the suicide of Nazi leader Adolf Hitler, was convicted in 1946 and spent 10 years in a West Berlin jail.
In 1945, a day after Adolf Hitler took his own life, Admiral Karl Doenitz effectively became sole leader of the Third Reich with the suicide of Hitler’s propaganda minister, Josef Goebbels.
Doenitz, contrary to the Naval Protocol of 1936, ordered U-Boats to sink merchant ships without warning and not hang around to rescue survivors.
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