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RE: Doenitz defenders
Posted by: Craig McLean ()
Date: June 19, 2001 03:13PM

<HTML>You seem unable to objectively discuss U-boat topics. Might I suggest you avoid this forum if you think it might cause you a stroke? This forum is filled with friends of the U-boatwaffe, and you\'ll rarely hear anything but praise for these men who didn\'t want war, but simply had to go out and do their duty like soldiers of any country must.

The order to not pick up survivors is because there was not the room or provisions in a U-boat to accomodate them. Still, there are many instances of U-boats assisting survivors, when Allied escorts or aircraft were not around to sink them. Doenitz fought a clean war, and apparently the Nuremberg tribunal agreed, as he was given the lightest sentence of anyone at the first round of trials. Many Allied naval commanders then and today also agree Doenitz fought a clean war.

Hitler himself is a different subject. Don\'t tie Nazi policies to the U-boat arm--they are completely different topics.

U-boats took out legitimate military targets. Read about Hardegen and the Gulf America, when he avoided shelling her from sea-side to avoid missing and hitting innocent civilians on shore. Or Hartenstein and the survivors he attempted to assist until he was chased off by an American aircraft. Instances of compassion by U-boat crews are very, very numerous.

If you want to discuss wanton destruction just for the sake of butchery, read about Britain\'s \"Bomber\" Harris, head of strategic bombing. His policy was to destroy cities and people just for the terror aspect, in the hopes the massive destruction of non-military targets would frighten the Germans into surrendering. Read about the fire-bombing of Dresden, another non-miltary target the Allies put to the torch just to terrorize the populace. The death toll in Dresden rivals even Hiroshima and Nagasaki. </HTML>

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Doenitz defenders JD Thomas 06/19/2001 02:43PM
RE: Doenitz defenders Rainer Bruns 06/19/2001 02:48PM
RE: Doenitz defenders Tom Caramela 06/19/2001 08:39PM
RE: Doenitz defenders Craig McLean 06/19/2001 03:13PM
RE: Doenitz defenders Craig M 06/19/2001 03:20PM
RE: Doenitz defenders Peter Johnson 06/19/2001 05:09PM
RE: Doenitz defenders Craig M 06/20/2001 03:27PM
RE: Doenitz defenders Jim 06/19/2001 03:55PM
RE: Doenitz defenders Rainer Bruns 06/19/2001 04:15PM
RE: Doenitz defenders Don Baker 06/19/2001 03:59PM
RE: Oooopps! Rainer Bruns 06/19/2001 04:17PM
RE: Doenitz defenders Steve 06/19/2001 05:50PM
RE: Großadmiral Karl Dönitz MPC 06/19/2001 06:33PM
RE: Doenitz defenders james stewart 06/19/2001 07:53PM
RE: JD read my statement! Tom Caramela 06/19/2001 08:40PM
RE: Doenitz defenders Rainer Kolbicz 06/20/2001 05:19AM
RE: Doenitz defenders Craig McLean 06/20/2001 03:58PM


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