↑ "On 30 January 1944, Dönitz received from the Führer, as a decoration, the Golden Party Badge; Dönitz would later assume that he "thereby became an honorary member of the Party." The Avalon Project at Yale Law School. According with German laws, it was forbidden for professional officers to join political parties, even after พรรคนาซี took power. For that reason, Adolf Hitler and other Nazi leaders distrusted the Army.
