Grave of Henry Weihe

Sergeant Henry C. Weihe, Company M, 7th Cavalry was born in Saxony, Germany on September 16, 1847.  (Custer’s Best: The Story of Company M, 7th Cavalry at the Little Bighorn)

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Karl Doenitz, U-boat commander, Commander of the Kriegsmarine

Navy Grand Admiral Karl Dönitz

Karl Dönitz, Navy Grand Admiral, was born on September 16, 1891 in Grünau near Berlin; he was commander of the U-boats, commander-in-chief of the Navy from 1943-1945, successor to Adolf Hitler in May 1945, winner of the Knight’s Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves, convicted at Nürnberg of war crimes and sentenced to 10 years imprisonment, released from Spandau Prison in 1956, author Memoirs: Ten Years and Twenty Days, and died on December 24, 1980 in Aumühle near Hamburg.  (2000 Quotes from Hitler’s 1000-Year Reich)