In a corner of northwestern Germany the German war spirit still throve. Around the red brick Marine & Signal School in Flensburg milled armed German soldiers and sailors. Sometimes they drilled stiffly, sometimes they sang Wir Fahren Gegen Engeland and the Horst Wessel Lied.
Their garrison commander, Captain Lut, ramrod-stiff and shaven-pated U-boat skipper, boasted openly of his high score110,000 tons of Allied shippingand usually added: "The next time I will do better."
Inside the school were Grand Admiral Karl Doenitz, "the last Reichsführer," and his ill-assorted but determined ministersCount Lutz Schwerin von Krosigk, acting premier, foreign minister and minister of finance;...