Erich Raeder
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Erich Johann Albert Raeder was a German admiral who played a major role in the naval history of World War II and was convicted of war crimes after the war. He attained the highest possible naval rank,
Raeder in 1940
Erich Raeder (second from left) and the staff of Vice Admiral Franz von Hipper (center), 1916
Raeder in 1928
Raeder and Paul von Hindenburg in Kiel, 1931
Battle of the Barents Sea
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The Battle of the Barents Sea was a World War II naval engagement on 31 December 1942 between warships of the German Navy and British ships escorting Convoy JW 51B to Kola Inlet in the USSR. The actio
Erich Raeder
…off the US east coast, which was later called the "Second Happy Time" by German submariners. On 30 January 1943, following Hitler's outrage over the Battle of the Barents Sea, Karl Dönitz, the supreme commander of the Kriegsmarine's U-boat arm, was promoted to grand admiral, and Raeder was named admiral inspector, a ceremonial…
Battle of the Barents Sea Irwin J. Kappes, 2009
Battle of the Barents Sea
Erich Raeder with Adolf Hitler shortly after he resigned from his post of commander in chief of the Navy in 1943