It’s hillarious that you basically had Bormann, Goebbels, Goering, and Himmler all vying to replace Hitler, and who does Hitler pick, Doenitz.
Goering had attempted his 'telegram coup' days before Hitler's suicide and he blew a gasket.
Himmler was seeking a separate peace and was also out.
Bormann and Goebbels were in the bunker and would barely outlive Hitler.
I sometimes wonder if Hitler had spent more money on submarines and less on ships like Bismarck, how that might have changed things. A couple of times early in the war more subs might have forced England out of the war. No matter how many subs Germany had sonar, air cover and other things would have caught up with them. But there were a couple of windows there to change things with enough subs.