Was Karl Doenitz repatriated to Germany after WW1 "as insane"?
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I have been looking at the British prisoner-of-war lists. Doenitz entered a camp at Malta on 5 October 1918, arrived at a camp in Southampton on 22 November, was admitted to Brocton War Hospital on 14 April suffering from malaria. According to his autobiography he was released in July that year. It is hard to argue against the Britsh lists as they are primary sources and written long before Doenitz became famous.
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Most of the books written on Karl Doenitz seem to agree that he feigned insanity, in fact a couple of times:
...fortress in Malta and finished up in England, first in a camp near Sheffield and then in the Manchester Lunatic Asylum, according to the British Intelligence file.l His name was Karl Donitz. Donitz returned to a defeated Germany in July, 1919
- From The Fighting Captain By Alan Burn
Doenitz's own comments concerning his imprisonment after WWII (a different incident):
"Two companions and I," Donitz confessed to a prison psychiatrist, "decided it might aid our efforts to escape if we were adjudged insane.
- from Becoming Evil: How Ordinary People Commit Genocide and Mass Killing By James E. Waller
and
Doenitz was sent to a British prison camp, where he feigned insanity—“playing childish games with biscuit tins and little china dogs that could be bought in the canteen"
- From The Mathews Men: Seven Brothers and the War Against Hitler's U-boats By William Geroux
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