In the Wikipedia article on Raeder is the following, based on a highly respected German historian's book.
These communications to the Fleet Commander are not recorded in the KTB anywhere and I have never heard a whisper of such a thing before in any of the regular sources. Has anybody else seen reference to this? "No, Admiral Lutjens...I expect you to die!"After the Bismarck was disabled by a British torpedo hit on the rudder on 26 May 1941, Raeder sent a series of radio messages to Lütjens reminding him of his "fight to the last round" order of December 1939, a order that Lütjens faithfully obeyed.[257] The German historian Werner Rahn argued in "Germany and the Second World War, the official history of the Wehrmacht" that Raeder's orders to "fight to the finish" doomed most of the crew of the Bismarck to a watery grave; had Lütjens being given the option of scuttling or surrendering the Bismarck rather engaging in a hopeless battle, the lives of 2, 200 German officers and sailors could had been saved instead of the 110 who were saved.[
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