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.

Your American admiral said that he held me in the highest esteem, and thought that I conducted my defense perfectly. He said through his chief of staff that my conduct was beyond reproach and he had the greatest admiration for me.

Certainly inside my heart I know degrees of difference. But I can't blame any of these men who share a common fate with me. The big folly of this trial is that it lacks the two men who are to blame for anything which is criminal, namely Hitler and Himmler.

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

Our losses... have reached and intolerable level.

I was fascinated by the [operation] of a U-boat ... where every single man was an indispensable part of the whole. Every submariner, I am sure, has experienced in his heart [the joy of] the task entrusted to him [and] felt as rich as a king.

I'm an old man at 54, without teeth, and with rheumatism.