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RE: Was there any emlem on u286?
Posted by: Johannes ()
Date: April 21, 2001 11:29AM

<HTML>Hi Lawrence,

just a little something to add to your info: I know the motto spelt \\\"Lewwer duad ues Slaav\\\" (BTW, I think it translates as \\\"rather dead than slave\\\") from a late-19th century ballad called \\\"Pidder Lueng\\\" by Detlev von Liliencron about North Frisian resistance (on the island of Sylt) against attempts to force payments out of local residents. Using these words, one of the locals - said Pidder Lueng - killed the person trying to exact the money by shoving him into, of all things, a cauldron of boiling gruel. I\\\'d have to check again, but I\\\'m pretty sure that until some time ago the cauldron (and maybe even the words) was part of the coat-of-arms of the district of \\\"Nordfriesland\\\" / North Frisia just south-west of the Danish border.
Not sure if this is U-boat related, but here it is, anyway.

Regards, Johannes
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Was there any emlem on u286? Rauken 04/20/2001 02:53PM
RE: Was there any emlem on u286? Lawrence 04/20/2001 06:19PM
RE: Was there any emlem on u286? Johannes 04/21/2001 11:29AM
RE: Was there any emlem on u286? Rainer Bruns 04/21/2001 11:34AM
RE: Was there any emlem on u286? Lawrence 04/21/2001 02:50PM


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