General Discussions
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RE: Nacht der langen Messer
Posted by:
Sam
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Date: April 07, 2001 08:41PM
<HTML>The name \'Night of the Long Knives\' was used in reference to this action with SC 7 in particular. In Clair Blair\'s \'Hitler\'s U-Boat War: The Hunters\' it states, \" Dönitz and the Berlin propagandists groped for adjectives to gloat over these successes. Combining the attacks on SC 7 and Halifax 79 into one long prolanged battle (\'The Night of the Long Knives\').....\"
In Terence Robertson\'s \'Night Raider of the Atlantic\' it states in regards to the return of U 99 from this action, \"War correspondents and photographers clustered around demanding pictures and \'first-person\' accounts of what was already being described in Lorient as \'The Night of the Long Knives.\'\"</HTML>
In Terence Robertson\'s \'Night Raider of the Atlantic\' it states in regards to the return of U 99 from this action, \"War correspondents and photographers clustered around demanding pictures and \'first-person\' accounts of what was already being described in Lorient as \'The Night of the Long Knives.\'\"</HTML>