In this 20 minute video Historian Mark Felton discusses Admiral Donitz's change of mind in regards to his Presidency of the German Government during WWII, and why he changed his mind, and sent a letter to the German Chancellor in 1980. The German government suppressed the document until 2015. Watch the video below and decide for yourself if Donitz was trying to help or hurt the current government at the time.
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In 1981, the West German government was handed a bizarre document. It was called the 'Dönitz Testament' and had been written by Hitler's successor and the last leader of Nazi Germany, Grand Admiral Karl Dönitz, in 1975. Its contents were suppressed by the German state until 2015. What were the explosive claims made by Dönitz in this document, and why was the German government unsettled by it? Find out here...
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