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Originally Posted by Erich
it's called pride.........Doenitz and the KM general staff could not think in any way shape or form their so called little protected code could be possibly figured out. Even after the simplicity of submerged U-booten getting hit time after time by ships as well as coastal bombers. It would seem obvious to a 1944-45 u-boot crew that someone had spilled the goods but ............ ? and they paid severely for it
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This is a widespread problem for the Germans and one that is not limited to the KM. Note how after German engineers invented chaff (drüppel) Göring ordered the invention supressed because he feared the British might discover their invention. There was no thought here that the British might discover it themselves.
The same goes for centi-metric radar. Even the Japanese managed to invent and produce sets. The Germans on the other hand tossed out the possibility based on their own research and limitations of available tubes. Until they captured British sets they just could not entertain the idea that centimetric radar might actually work.
There are lots of examples of this kind of rigid thinking. I suspect that it is a national trait of Germany. Most countries have such societial traits, and yes they do change over time. But for the most part slowly if at all.