Editing Spandau Prison (section)

===Erich Raeder and Karl Dönitz===

"The Admiralty", as the other prisoners referred to [[Karl Dönitz|Dönitz]] and [[Erich Raeder|Raeder]], were often teamed together for various tasks. Raeder, with a liking for rigid systems and organization, designated himself as chief librarian of the prison library, with Dönitz as his assistant. Each designed their own sleeve insignia for both chief librarian (a silver book) and assistant chief librarian (a gold book) which were woven with the appropriate colored thread. Both men often withheld themselves from the other prisoners, with Dönitz claiming for his entire ten years in prison that he was still the rightful head of the German state (he also got one vote in the [[1954 West German presidential election]]), and Raeder having contempt for the insolence and lack of discipline endemic in his nonmilitary fellow prisoners. Despite preferring to stay together, the two of them continued their wartime feud and argued most of the time over whether Raeder's battleships or Dönitz's U-boats were responsible for losing the war. This feud often resulted in fights. After Dönitz's release in 1956, he wrote two books, one on his early life, ''My Ever-Changing Life'', and one on his time as an admiral, ''Ten Years and Twenty Days''. Raeder, in failing health and seemingly close to death, was released in 1955 and died in 1960.