- Following the death of Adolf Hitler, as President (not Chancellor) of the Third Reich during the first week of May 1945, he negotiated Germany's surrender in WWII to the Allied powers.
- He is referred to, by name, in Winston Churchill's V-E Day speech, 8 May 1945.
- German naval officer during World War II who attained the rank of Großadmiral, the Navy's equivalent of a Field Marshal.
- A framed photo of Dönitz appears prominently on the wall of the submarine in Le Bateau (1981).
- He was sentence to ten years' imprisonment at the Nuremberg Trials for waging unrestricted warfare at sea, even though the British and Americans had done likewise throughout the Battles of the Atlantic and the Pacific.
- Despite his postwar claims Dönitz was seen as supportive of the Nazi regime and made several anti-Semitic statements during World War II.
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