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(More customer reviews)UNTIL I READ GRAND ADMIRAL RAEDER'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY, "MY LIFE", I TRULY BELIEVED THAT HE AND GRAND ADMIRAL DOENITZ DESERVED THEIR RESPECTIVE LIFE AND 10 YEARS PRISON SENTENCES RECEIVED AT NUREMBURG IN 1946. NOW, I'M NOT SO SURE. I THINK THAT RAEDER WAS A SCAPEGOAT FOR THE RUSSIANS; THEY HAD CAPTURED HIM (ONE OF THE FEW TOP NAZIS THEY DID CAPTURE) AND THEY WANTED TO MAKE SURE HE PAID FOR THE GERMAN NAVY. HOWEVER, I HAVEN'T READ ANYTHING IN RAEDER'S STORY TO CONVINCE ME THAT HE WAS ANYTHING BUT WHAT HE CLAIMED TO BE: A LOYAL, PATRIOTIC SAILOR, WHO PERFORMED THE SAME DUTIES AS FLEET ADMIRAL KING, ADMIRALS OF THE FLEET SIR DUDLEY POUND AND SIR ANDREW CUNNINGHAM, AND ADMIRAL YAMAMOTO. THOSE DUTIES WERE TO MAKE CONTINGENCY PLANS IN CASE OF POSSIBLE HOSTILITIES WITH VARIOUS OTHER SEA POWERS, AND CARRY OUT THE ORDERS OF THE GOVERNMENT IN POWER. HOWEVER, THE RUSSIANS WANTED HIS SCALP; ORIGINALLY WANTING HIM SENTENCED TO DEATH, THEY RELUCTANTLY ACCEPTED THE LIFE SENTENCE. PURE AND SIMPLY, RAEDER WAS A GOOD SAILOR, WHO SHOULD HAVE BEEN ACQUITTED.
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