Admiral Doenitz"s regime

By the spring of 1945, it became obvious that the death of the Third Reich was inevitable. The masses of refugees looked from the east to the west of Germany. The bombing of the allies turned the city in the ruins and ashes, the number of civilian casualties reached 600,000. The situation inside the country has developed catastrophic. The lines of the message almost completely ceased to act, the carriage of goods fell to a minimum, three-quarters of industrial facilities were destroyed. Everywhere reigned frustration and despair. Since the Soviet offensive, no one in Germany has no longer imagined how to win or even dream of a victory in this war ... Based on documentary materials, the well-known military historian Marlis Steinert analyzes the process of rapid fall of the third Reich, actions, hopes and thoughts of political and military leaders, serving the regime in which ugly idealism and exorbitant imperial ambitions were so strange