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Regarded by his admirers as being among the greatest of all German war leaders (and by his detractors as the ‘Devil’s Admiral’), as supreme commander of the navy he was responsible for the staggering death toll incurred by the young men he sent out in U-boats to fight the Battle of the Atlantic. It was these attacks that threatened to cut the Allies’ shipping lifeline and caused Churchill to confess in his memoirs that U-boats were the only thing that caused him real anxiety.