16 March 1945

16 March 1945 Failure to report the command arrangements at Granville

b) Detailed enquiries have established that the Commander-in-Chief of the Navy had not been fully informed about the command of the operation against Granville (see the congratulatory radio message to Vice Admiral Hüffmeier).

It should have been the responsibility of Naval High Command West to include in its situation reports the contents of the radio messages it had received, which the Naval Staff Operations Division had only happened to read.

German Naval Staff diary. BArch RM 7/70; former British Admiralty reference Case GE 167, PG 31739. Published Part A, volume 67. PDF page 224; printed page 218. Audited translation reference 29.