Goebbels cabinet
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The Goebbels cabinet was named by Adolf Hitler in his political testament of 30 April 1945. The cabinet was therefore not legitimised according to the Weimar Constitution, which was still formally in
Bundesarchiv Bild 146 1968 101 20A, Joseph Goebbels
Karl Dönitz
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Karl Dönitz was a German naval officer and politician who briefly succeeded Adolf Hitler as the head of state of Nazi Germany after the latter's suicide during the Second World War in April 1945. He h
Goebbels cabinet
…cabinet was therefore not legitimised according to the Weimar Constitution, which was still formally in force. To replace himself, Hitler named Admiral Karl Dönitz as Reichspräsident and Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels as Reichskanzler. The cabinet was short-lived as Goebbels killed himself along with his…
Dönitz in 1943
Oberleutnant zur See Karl Dönitz as Watch Officer of U-39 during World War I
Commemorative plaque for Dönitz's sons, who both died in World War II: Leutnant zur See Peter Dönitz on 19 May 1943, as a watch officer on the U-954, and Oberleutnant zur See Klaus Dönitz on 13 May 1944, on the E-boat S-141
Dönitz observing the arrival of U-94 at Saint-Nazaire in France in June 1941