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When he Grand Admiral Karl Doenitz warfare. marine into an allied port through returned the high command told Admiral Pledges Third Army Drives who was reported by the Hamburg "Kill, kill, kill!" he was re mine fields and with one torpedo him he had proved his ability in Soviets Smash To Trap Germans radio last night to have succeeded ported to have told these U-boat sank "a valuable navy repair past work as a submarine com For ReichschanceUery Continued War ship." For this he received the mander and he was put in charge In Czechoslovakia Adolf Hitler as head of Nazi Ger crews. "That is your duty to the In Heart of Berlin Against 'Bolshevism' many is an able, ruthless com fatherland and der fuehrer. Have Hohenzollern order. Later he was of the submarine service. mander who originated the "woll decorated with the Iron Cross. He also became an instructor to LONDON (AP)-Tho Ham no humanity in your labor. Hu Wednesday PARIS, W dnesuay (AP) pack" submarine tactics and sent manity means weakness." In 1917 his U-boat was brought young submarine commanders and LONDON, CAP) burg Nazi radio said last night acquired recognition for his tac Braunau, quaint little Austrian his underwater crews out with an to the surface neal' Malta by at - German re istance in the that Adolf Hitler had died yes Born Sepl 16, 1891, at BerU•• tack of a British destroyer and he tical and technical improvements heart of ruined Berlin neared town where Adolf Hitler was exhortation to "kill, kill, kill!" son of an engineer, Doenltz entered terday aft rnoon in Berlin and was a British prisoner tor a tUne. in various types of submarines at total. collapse today as born 56 years ago, waR cap A veteran of U-boat warfare in the imperial Germany navy April 14,000 had been succeeded by Admiral Aller the World war he was em the beginning of the war. fanatical Nazi dje-bards sur tnred last night by United World War I. Doenitz was not 1, 1910, as a cadet. Sept. 20, 1913, Karl Doenitz, his per 0 n 81 ployed first as commander of a Because of German submarine rendered to the Red army yes· States Third army tanks just known as an ardent Nazi and was he was named a lieutenant and destroyer flotilla for several years successes Doenilz was decorated choice as heir to command of tCl'day after reportedly losing a the German radio was telling believed to have backed hIs com served aboard the cruiser Breslau and also served as navigation offi with the Chevalier Cross in April, the German nation. the world that the Nazi fuehrer manders in successful demands where he was in August, 1914, cer aboard the cruiser Nymphe. 1940, and the Iron Cross in Sep theil' leader, AdoU Hitler. Adolf BlUer "It is reported from the was dead. that the government cease the when the First World war broke In October, 1930, he became first tember, 1940. Mo cow's nightly war bul fuehrer's headquarters that our practice of assigning gestapo ag out. letin announced last night that The 13th armored diYision officer of the admiralty general He became a vice-admiral and fuehrer Adolf Hitlrr, fighting ents to accompany each U-boat on on March Soviet troops had overrun more took Braunau on the Inn ri ver In 1916 he was attached to the staff statloned at the naval base of 14, 1942, in recognition to the I a s t breath against its forays against the allies. submarine school and then com WilheLmshaven. Here he made an of the blows struck by his subma than 100 blocks of buildings in Commission Heads after storming across the I8ar Bolshevi m, f LI for Gennany Now 53 years old, Doenilz suc manded a submarine, U-boat 25, intensive study of submarine war rines he was promoted to ·admiral. lhe city's administrative core as river and driving 25 miles. this afternoon in his operational ceeded Grand Admiral Erich Rae that waged successful warfare fare and construction. When he succeeded Raeder in they smashed toward the Reich Named to Draft headquarters in the Reichschan A field dispatch said General der as supreme commander of the against allied merchantmen in the In the summer of 1935 he com 1943 he was given the title of chancellery anq the Germans' cellery," said the German-lan Patton's forces had established German navy Jan. 30, 1943, re- Mediterranean and Atlantic. In manded the cruiser Emden on a grand admiral. underground Iortress in the Fier guage announccment recorded by radio contact with Russian col garten. Organization Charter The Associated Press listening limns pounding westward from The Soviet high command did post in London at 10:27 p. m. Vienna and that the two armies At a Glance- not announce the capture of any Molotov Expected (3:27 p. m., central war time). were probably less than 40 miles specific b u 11 din g s in Berlin's "On April 30 the fuehrer ap from a junction which would trap center and it was not known To Leave Conference POlnled Grand Admiral Doenltz Germans in Czechoslovakia IThe 1!~~ and Fall ~f* l!i~l~l ~:~~!~d~~m:r:der whether the Russians had reached an 500n for Moscow hili Succellllor. The &,rand admiral Ind isolate Nazi forces In the By THI! AS80Cl.ATIID PRESS Summer, 1940. Hiller failed to y the ReichschanceLlery, where the FollOy{ing are important dates invade England. Today's and successor of the fuehrer now Alpine redoubt below Munich. Hamburg radio asserted Hitler SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - The speaks to the German people." in the rise and lall oC Adol( Hit- June 22 1941 declared war on Italian Campaign had died in the afternoon. No Commenl From 'Ike' ler: Russia.' • United Nations conference yester A speaker identifying himself The broadcast report of Hitler's Nears Close; Yanks So vie t assault troops also day put Belgium, South Africa, as Doenitz then pleaded continu April 20, 1889, Hitler was born. Dec. 11 , 1941, declared war on cleared the City districts of Char ance of the war, declaring: - death brought no comment from 1923, the Nazi movement was the United States. Iowan Norway and Venezuela In charge General E is e n hower, whose Race for Austria lottenburg and Schoeneberg. of four major commissions which "It is my Clrst task to save Ger la unched at his Munich oeer Autumn, ~942, Germans failed Some days ago the Russians many from destruction by the ad several million fighting men had cellar putsch. at Stallngrad. Uamburr radio* * claims * Hitler is will draft its charter for a world crllshed the Nazi ioe on the bat ROME (AP)-Fascist Comman said they believed Hitler had fled organization. vancing Bolshevist enemy. For Jan. 30, 1933, He was appointed Nov. 8, 1942, United States in- dead. Berlin, probably leaving a double this aim alone the military strug tlefields of France, Belgium, Hoi chancellor of Germany. vadeq French North Africa. der Marshal Rodolfo Graziani an Without a change or a hltch, it nounced the unconditional sur who would die "herolc.ally" and gle continues. land and Germany and brok,en Marc~ 23, 1933, t,he Reichstag May,12, 1943, Germans and ltaJ- Palton's forces capture Brau approved assignments to the com into the sancturary of his long l'ender last night of his Ligurian be found amid the ruins of the missions and to a dozen commit "As far and for so long as gave him a dictator s powers. ians suffered debacle in Tunisian nau, Austria, Hitler's birth Nazi capital. achievement of this aim is im planned southern redoubt. June, 1934, h.e conducted his campaign and surrender. army as New Zellland units linked place. tees which will serve under thern. up with Yugoslav torces near Tri peded by the Engllsh and the Military observers here did not "blood purge" taking frightful Summer 1943 Russians lanch- Earlier, the Nazi high command The conference thereby squared este at the head of the Adriatic sea Americans, we shall be forced to overlook the possibility that the toll of lives among party workers ed great oilensi~e. 14,000 Germans surrender In had said the fanatical last-ditch away to real work, but with the and American units raced for the defenders were huddled around carryon our defensive fig h t dramatic announcement of HH h~ called "traitors." July 25, 1943, Mussollni forced Berlin as resistance nears total question of Its voting procedure southern end of the Brenner pass Hitler in the underground fortress against them as well. Under such \tt'S death might be a mask and March 7, 1936, he remilitarized out as aJJies conquered southern collapse.