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Wonderfully narrated, knew very little about his life and dedication to his career.

Best narrator yet.

Raedar was a single issue voter and that single issue was “BOATS”

"Stern encouragement!" Only an Englishman can say that! LOL! As an American, I never heard that expression, but it makes absolute sense!

Very interesting and well presented...formidable characters....

I love this series...very.. personal 💯

Ooh I enjoyed this narration too. So many great voices and great information. Thanks again for the time and effort. Best to you all. ❤😊

Raeder translates to „wheels“. So a common pun among critics was „ mit Raedern soll man nicht übers Wasser fahren“ which translated to „ you should not drive over the water with wheels“

Great content as always!

Great video as always!

Love your videos guys! Keep up the good work! Best documentaries our there!🎉🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤

A lot, of interesting back story and context surrounding the naval build up to the battle of Jutland.

Until my early 20s I thought doenitz was head of the kriegsmarine. Lol. A great book 'the arms of Krupp' corrected that aspect of my history Channel education.

Very good episode .Thanks!

Excellent as always! Please consider making one for the great statesman Metternich. 🙂

Great job.

Excellent work and good history

Very interesting doku. Thanks.

Great Work!

TY - very interesting. One point though - the figures given for the battle of Narvik, reflected only the 1st battle - During the 2nd battle - 3 days later - the Germans lost heavily - 8 destroyers sunk or scuttled and 1 U-boat sunk, and the RN lost just 3 damaged destroyers

An interesting theory I've read and listened to was had Germany built more u-boats with the steel used for KMS Bismarck and KMS Tirpitz and the Graf Spree there was a good chance that they would've been able to strangle Britain out of the war before the US got involved. However, I do believe that Dontiz was right about Raeder clinging to old naval beliefs. And I believe Raeder was a bit delusional thinking he could take on the Royal Navy, let alone the US Navy. Even Yamamoto knew the Japanese Navy would never defeat the US Navy. If I remember correctly, during the planning for the raid on Pearl Harbor he said something to the effect of "if we do this then I can guarantee to put up a tough fight for the first 6 months but I absolutely have no confidence as to what will happen if it went on for two or three years" and just before the raid he said "for a while we'll have everything our own way stretching out like an octopus spreading its tentacles, but that'll last for a year, a year-and-a-half at most".

Why does this have to happen at 1pm for me, don't they know we like our bed time stories to be as suprise?

Does someone here now what the last song is called? I really like it.

Very informative and well presented- good job to all that had a hand in producing it. IMHO- Reader was a good Admiral by putting the Navy first and foremost in everything he did, wearing that Swastika and his devotion in Hitler can't be over looked... he was one of THEM- those that knew about the Holocaust atrocities but either did nothing or were directly involved, period.

Excellent Film very well done and seller written on. Man who did what his job had him too do.. very Good thank you

He committed no war crimes. His persecution at Nuremberg was proof that the trials were not based on law. Many of the verdicts were just but the judges were often pretending to base them on law. Raeder was a career naval officer who did his duty without committing was crimes. That is different from officers who committed war crimes and used the excuse that they were just following orders.

Thanks, still hoping for Rundstedt or Guderian.

Good vid. But as noted by several commentators here, there were multiple small errors. One thing I would have liked to see more detail on was the rift between Donita and Raeder.

BRAVO!!!! AWESOME!!!

When one gives his loyalty to his government. It's dangerous to have doubts about it,

I personally think his own personal ambitions and ideals is what drove him to stupidly go along with the Nazis.

BRILLIANT...but is this a new narrator?

The carrier was on its way back home. The dive bombers in Norway were biplanes.

Anyone who makes war or supports those who make war when that war is a war of aggression is guilty of something.

Well done and interesting. I would have preferred more detail but that would add more time and possibly risk losing the viewer.

Great documentary is their.plans to do one on kaiser wilhelm ii

Reader was certainly blighted by being surrounded by shiftless thugs. But overall I believe he was an honorable officer who helped make the German navy better. Probably should have gotten 10 years, like Doenitz.

Please make a documentary on Kurt Student, the founder of Luftwaffe Fallschirmjager

That's just great Reader, a proponent of war and leader of the Navy , , , sends countless young men to their deaths , , , then when things are not going well , , , Reader resigns , , , and quits saying " I don't want to play this game anymore " , , , then lives into his 80's , , , never having missed a dinner , , ,

Eric Raeder: Loyal To His Navy

Raeder wasn’t fully positioned to make the role of the Navy important to Hitler’s goals which were set in motion long before the German navy would have been fully operational. He tried to remain relevant but the invasion of the Soviet Union rendered his role being a secondary one. Their failures were devastating and Raeder could not possess the necessary tools to be relevant in the war. Doenitz’s U-Boats were able to interfere with supplies en route to Britain on a consistent basis Raeder’s surface ships couldn’t.

Raeder wanted to invade Norway. Raeder followed Hitler's orders pertaining to Commandos. Raeder knew the Germans sank the SS ATHENIA even while blaming the UK. Raeder claims to have known nothing about Hitler's plans for the Jews. Other top brass stated otherwise. Raeder never said anything about removing all Jews serving in the Navy. He knew but only cared about one thing: building up his Navy regardless of other plans.

Please share the sources used for the making of this video.

I discard the idea of army being apolitical. They are the major force and instrument of any regime, they are the most obliged to be political and questioning government's actions before anybody else.

As a U.S. Navy Vet; He was a simple sailor loyal in truth only to his Navy. One has to be a sailor to truly understand this.

a great strategist, kriegsmarine should be proud it had him. particularly his insistence of the importance of suez canal in deterring britain's war effort was genius, suez canal's importance is showing up to this very day.. Donitz was right tho when he called him or his surface fleet ambitions a dinosaur, as submarines and aircraft carriers are the masters of the sea today and not the big surface ships

I was unaware of his support for a Mediterranean strategy. That is - indeed - what the Axis Powers should have done - instead of attacking Russia. Naval Power is inherently Strategic - so - I'm not surprised to see that Raeder saw the strategic advantage of this. I just didn't know that he had. At the beginning of 1941 the Germans were at war only with Britain and they were winning. At the end of 1941 the Germans were at war with Britain, the USA and the USSR - and they were doomed. Concentrating on attacking the British Empire - getting the Suez Canal and the oil of the middle east - they also would have then had land access to the the Rare Minerals of Africa. Not having access to those minerals - meant that German machinery (such as jet engines and final drives) broke down sooner than that of Allied Machinery - which did have access to those minerals. Saying that the Med was part of the Italian's Sphere of Influence - meant nothing. If the Germans had *_wanted_* to put a greater effort in that area the Italians certainly would not have tried to stop them. There is a difference between the Germans leaving the Med to the Italians because Hitler wanted to attack Russia - and them being excluded from the Med by the Italians - as if the Italians didn't want them there. In any case - the Germans were going to attack the Russians because that is what Hitler wanted to do. Hitler didn't want to fight the British. He would have preferred to have them come to terms - but- they were largely unable to do anything on the continent anyway so that was good enough for Hitler. Good enough for him to attack the Russians - which is what he wanted to do. .

Brilliant presentation and narration. IMO neither Raeder nor Dönitz were war criminals and the allies had no business bringing them to trial. Victors "justice".

Start 5:50

Both Reader & Doenitz should not have been found guilty they were sailors who did their duty. US Admiral Lockwood even testified for Doenitz that he fought the US submarine war in exactly the same manner. It was merely victors justice. Keitle & Jodel couldn’t claim the same clean war that the navy could

maybe the bosses at world of warships a game with ships, will watch this documentary and include this commander into the game

Perfect name for an audacious leader.

Raeder's earlier influence with Hitler assisted the Allies. Doenitz was denied the vast fleet of u boats to destroy the vital supply line between the USA and Britain. The effectiveness of the u boat campaign is detailed in the excellent Battle for the Atlantic by Jonathan Dimbleby

That's not Raeder on the title page.

Was radar named after him?

Omg! Meu sobrenome é Raeder 😳

This men like him and Donitz lived in a graysone so to speak and you have to dig deep into them to get some kind of understanding,when you look at things in general the german navy and sailors did not get as bad wrap or punishment in general as the milletery

Second Slesvig war was in 1864 not 1867

The bluecher is NOT a battle cruiser

I have no proof, and what I have been told is probably incorrect. However, on my father's side of the family, which is Dutch and German, one of my relatives last names in the US was Reeder. I was always told that through the Reeders, I was distantly related to Admiral Raeder. But, who the hail knows.

Save time listen easily at 1.5x

Darth Raeder

An I was born just over one hundred years after him in the 18 May 1976 and not that far away in Bremerhaven... Lol

In the first five minutes twqo mistakes. Schleswig Holstein was not "seized" by Prussia. The german federation prevented the integration by Schelswig into Denmark. The school playground is not what you see in germany, it is an american school playground

Hitler declaring War on the US was an own goal. Had they not declared on the US, American isolationism was still strong. Almost all the US anger was aimed at Japan. Germany had no idea of the true production capacity of US industry. There would have been a strong tendency in Congress to stay out of Europe and concentrate on Japan. Raeder shared this blind spot with Hitler.

Great great grandpa

I dont know why the Germans didn’t just build merchant vessels that had a design and hull easily converted to warships so they could get past the tonnage limits

Von Rochow is Stolz auf ihn

Cant Wait For Gamal Abdel Nasser , Anwar Sadat , HOsni Mubarak , Saddam Hussein And Gaddafi

Two years younger than Winston Churchill

It wasn't a Danish province. It was a part of Germany under the King of Denmark, not part of Denmark.

He was a man of his time. He was first a Navy man who served his country. It could have been anybody besides Hitler, and he would have still be loyal to the Navy and his country.

nice pictures but they are often nt related to the topic showing neu-schwanstein castle is just one of many examples. I think you all can do a better job

Interesting but rhe the Jutland contraversy waa always a red herring. The German fleet waa never in a position to challenge the Royal Navy, and had no desire to fight a major fleet action it knew it could not win. It waa brought to action against its will, sevearly mauled and skillfully ran away leaving victory to Britain.

Reader should have been given a whole life sentence, the same as Rudolf Hess.

Great video and commentary. However, some of the comments in the comment section do not reflect the oath of loyalty to the fatherland, which obliges to obey the government. He took that seriously and for that he should be respected.

Good presentation, with one criticism. If you are going to use German words, learn the pronunciation. If not, just use the English translation. The same applies to any language, not just German.

The war against the Danes ended in 1864 - and not 1867

He was not a nazi. In fact he asked his subordinates and the navy should stay out of politics. In fact the allies committed war crimes bombing civilians and they also sunk axis merchant marines, civilians. The same as the Kriegsmarine .

I would say he was loyal, to a fault. I think the 10 years in prison was fine in his situation, but he requested death by firing squad, I think that would have been fine and fitting as he didn't do anything other than be a naval officer trying to do what naval officers do...

Inconnu dans les annales de la Kriegsmarine.

THOU SHALT NOT KILL

President von Hindenburg wanted to restore the Hohenzollern monarchy to power in the 1930s. If he had, all would have been well for Admiral Raeder, and the world in general. It's "funny" how overthrowing the Habsburgs, Hohenzollerns and Romanovs only resulted in millions of people dying for no apparent reason. So much for self determination.

Raeder was a conventional thinker, largely devoid of imagination and forethought. If he had been proactive he would have organised that the U-Boats were positioned at the Northern and Southern end of the English channel with Goebbels providing protection from the air so that no evacuation of troops from Dunkirk could have been undertaken without huge losses to British sea and water craft. In that narrow channel was the place to contest the numerically superior British Navy just as the Spartans met the Persians at the pass of Thermopylae. Because all the German Services, for reasons of jealously, tradition, pride and envy, did not co-operate with each other, the war was lost at that moment when Hitler did not press home his sudden defeat of France and destroy the British Expeditionary Force in its entirety.

Raeder should have looked at a map 🗺️ as the Canary Islands and Azores aren't in the Mediterranean therefore couldn't be Mediterranean bases!

How many German sailors got to write their biography's , , , not many , , , just the leaders ( royality ) have that privilege , , , , ,

Wilhelm II German Kaiser died in 1941 not 1940.

The Kaiser died in 1941, not 1940

To offer an answer to your question at the end Raeder might simply be regarded as a patriot who at one level failed to make the correct personal choices, but who did what so many of us would likely do. We can judge the architects of Nazism and the key figures, but Raeder was not one of them. Ask the same question in 50 years!

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Erich Raeder was a great Grand Admiral of Kriegsmarine whose carried Germany 🇩🇪 ambitious faithfully for becoming the owners of global dominate naval fleets.

If only he had remained Danish and not beee drummed into following orders. Prussia, the pox at the centre of Europe that invaded France 3 times, Russia twice and tried to starve Britain twice, with submarines.

Guilty as the rest WITHOUT QUESTION.

While it may be argued his cause was the Navy and the pride of Germany, his stature as a preminent figure within the country only served to support the eventual outcomes and as such required he answer to the moral degradation of Germany!

Not guilty

“The man known to history as…” STOP! This guy was alive very recently considering the span of history.

I must admit I was very surprised by the fact that he was tried and convicted of war crimes,especially since he resigned his post. Also along with Donitz I don't think the two of them would have anything to do with the holocaust. However everyone especially high ranking officials had to have known how most of the military equipment was built by slave labor. I don't really agree with Reader and Donitz serving time for war crimes. I agree with the Allies assertion that these individuals shouldn't be prosecuted as war criminals.

He kinda looks like the Nazi tank commander in Rat Patrol 📺

We spent trillions of dollars , spent 20 years in Afghanistan and never could control more than 50% of the land at our best point.