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RE: Doenitz defenders
Posted by: Rainer Kolbicz ()
Date: June 20, 2001 05:19AM

<HTML>Hi JD

Remember the circumstances for the order not to rescue survivors. The Laconia incident. (read more about here: [uboat.net]) U-156 (Hartenstein) was bombed, while saving survivors from the British passenger liner Laconia. Hartenstein sent a uncoded message with his position and the request for help (no Allied ship reacted). In return he was bombed by an American plane, although the U-boat was flying the red cross flag (I call the bombing a war crime).

Almost everone in Germany went along with the accepted program of the fascists. And the Germans fought until total destruction of her home country. I will not discuss with you about the cause of WWII, but in short the main points: treaty of Versailles, unemployment and bad economy situation. AH had converted Germany in 10 years from a indepted and suppressed country into a world power.

Please don\'t forget:
Do not judge things which happened 60 years ago from the point of view of today.

Regards
Rainer

P.S.:
I don\'t like your comment about Poles.. Have you noticed my surname? My name is of Polish extraction and my grandfather was in Danzig in September 1939, so he heard the first shots of WWII. He left his country after the war, because the Soviet \"occupation\" of Poland. (the Soviets killed more Poles than the Germans) All in all every fourth Pole died during WWII, the highest rate of all nations.</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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