ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTIETH DAY
Wednesday, 15 May 1946
DR. SIEMERS: So you were head of the Navy from 1928 to 1943?
RAEDER: Yes.
DR. SIEMERS: After the Versailles Treaty Germany had an army of only 100,000 men, and a navy of 15,000 men, with officers. (
In relation to the size of the Reich, the Wehrmacht was thus extremely small. )