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Navy Commander Erich Raeder was more concerned with enhancing the navy's position in the new Reich than with contributing to a rational grand strategy. His limited vision fitted nicely into Hitler's dreams of world empire.

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  2. An irritable old man with a practical, unimaginative mentality, but academically intelligent.
  3. I will bring to everyone's attention that, in case war with Great Britain were to burst; such a war could mean Germany's end.
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