Our losses have reached an intolerable level. The enemy air force played a decisive role in inflicting these high losses.

The reason that the American Navy does so well in wartime, is that war is chaos, and the Americans practice chaos on a daily basis.

The north German does not go in for extremes. He has broader horizons than the men from the mountains of Bavaria and Austria.

I accept responsibility for U-boat warfare from 1933 onward, and of the entire navy from 1943 on, but to make me responsible for what happened to Jews in Germany, or Russian soldiers on the east front it is so ridiculous all I can do is laugh.

Our losses... have reached and intolerable level.

I read sometime around 1938 of Jewish fines and some street actions against them. But I was too concerned with U-Boats and the naval problems to be concerned about Jews.

Only ... from personal experience [can a man] take the necessary measures without a preliminary process of trial and error.