Karl Dönitz - Civil Quotes

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If Hitler had not thrown the Communists into camps in 1933, there would have been civil war and bloodshed. The Communists would have revolted against the legally-elected government. The greatest danger of civil war in Germany came in 1932, when it was clearly a choice between Communism and National Socialism. So Paul von Hindenburg and the other conservative bourgeois elements chose Hitler. So did I, and I would do it again if a choice between Communism and Nazism arose.

Karl Dönitz

By placing these people with foreign ideas in camps, German blood was saved. Would it have been better to have a civil war?

Karl Dönitz