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    "ocrText": "-2- NIACT 2815 (SECTION TNO) May 19, midnight, from Paris\nThEy SEEM to be quite detached from the atmosphere\nof desolation and destruction which I noted yesterday\nin visits to Hamburg and Kiel. At my request GEN Rooks\nrequested Doenitz to call yesterday. Thus far he had\nnot been required to state the precise basis of his\nSERVICE\nclaim to assumption of authority. Briefly his story\nto DOVERN\nis that he was the recipient of the following radio\nmessages from Berlin on the dates indicated. These\ncopies are the only EVidence in support of his claim\nhe has thus far produced:\nduert\n(InsErt here text of my 2816, May 19, 11 p.m.).\nactoods.\nI asked Doenitz why he thought he had been\nmontage\nselected rather than Himmler or KEitel for Example.\nhere\nDoenitz stated that he believed it was because Hitler\nand Bormann fElt that the interests of Germany would\nbest be served in this crisis by reliance on trained\nand loyal personnel of the armed forces and that he\ncommandEd the respect of the latter to a far greater\ndegree than any other person. Other than that no\ngood reason occurred to him. His desire had been to\nSaVE GErmany or as much of it as he could from\nBolshevism.\nHitler"
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