Karl Donitz quotes:

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.

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.

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.

For the lessons one fails to learn during peacetime, one pays a high price in war.