The respected arts journal, The Dial, published a very brief notice reviewing the post-war memoir, My Memoirs, by Admiral Alfred Von Tirpitz (1849-1930). Beginning in 1897, Von Tirpitz was given the task of expanding the German Navy in hopes that it would be seen as a serious rival to that of the British. He utterly failed in that task.
The reviewer thought Von Tirpitz’ memoir was interesting only as a psychological study:
“My Memoirs, by Grand Admiral von Tirpitz is one of those elaborate vindications which carry the authentic conviction of guilt…If Germany was really, as the Grand Admiral estimates, a sheep in wolf’s clothing, a few more memoirs like this will leave no regret about her fate.”
Click here to read the 1918 interview with General Hindenburg in which he declared that the Germans lost the war as a result of the American Army.
Read an article about the many faults
of the German Navy during the Second World War…
