More From End of a Berlin Diary

Shirer reproduces parts of documents kept in such Teutonic detail after the war. Among them a speech by General Jodl which us harshly frank in its description is the state of the war in 1943. At page 219, he mentions something that should warm the hearts of every American  the U-boats were sinking an enormous number of ships supplying Britain but Jodl admits they cannot sink them faster than we can build them.