gwell, the german r,d as in ofas un see weip t usomething that obviously did not come to pass. in addition, hitler had not been sure, as we've already discussed, whether or not gre britain would declare war at all. and as a result he had not priority his his navy he he hoped to avoid a naval arms race. the sort of thing that british entry into the first world war. and in part as a result, thegerman would be by far the weakest of the three main military. on the eve of war. utility of the submarine in the first world war, where it had effect against allied shipping, the germans only 57 submarines in their entire navy at the of the war in part because ofitler and rader's decisions at the start of the war. roughly 30 or fewer of these submarines be at sea at any one timent ships and dozens upon dozens of escort vessels in atlantic. now, karl dÖnitz was the commander of the german arm ' subordinate. he was an ard appointed him as his successor in 1945 upon his own suicide. dÖnitz was also a micromanager. he tried to control entire battles in the atlantic from bases europe by radio