Hi, I'm Dönitz...

Originally Posted by pickler

not much doenitz could do. industrial might of ussr+usa=win. even if hitler had allocated more steel and aluminum resources to the kriegsmarine the panzer armies in the east would have suffered a bigger blow still and russians would have reached berlin much sooner, so it wouldn't even matter if doenitz was keeping the shipping lanes harassed. even in happy times the germans were only sinking half of what they needed to starve briton. it was too little too late.

it was all about who controlled the air. If the luftwaffe cleared the skies of bogies then german submarines could have had better survivability. the luftwaffe was never the same after the battle of britain. Germany was in deep sh%# by 1941 and not '43.

i think doenitz did everything a good sea commander would have done with the exception of setting uboats to sea even after the may 1943, but that was orders from hitler. type xxi was a waste of resources as much as maus, tiger II, me-262 and x-missiles. they should have mass produced a cheaper more hydrodynamic smaller submarine when USA entered the war.

Not exactly Doenitz call but had Germany waited on starting the war to amass more U boats and wait a LONG time to attack Russia, plus possibly get the Type XXI and the 262 into service quicker, the war would have turned out extremely differently.