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Re: Ubersee Sud
Posted by:
ROBERT M.
()
Date: December 22, 2007 03:44AM
Geoffrey, et al:
"U-977 - 66 days Submerged is Proven Fiction. U-977 left Bergen, Norway on 10
May and judging by the diving and DFs, seems to have sailed on the surface until the end of May. According to the US Navy version, the boat arrived in the Cape Verdes on 14 July and was therefore short on time to have made the entire trip submerged.
The ORIGINAL book about the voyage was Heinz Shaffer's "GEHEIMNIS UM U-977"
published in the German language in Argentina only in 1950. The Argentine Navy
was presented with the Spanish language volume for internal circulation.
To get a wider readership in Europe, Schaffer had to cut out some of the facts and dates to satisfy the various Allies and what everybody has relied on to date as gospel is the expurgated version published in German, Russian, English, and French and Finnish in 1952.
"GEHEIMNIS UN U-977" has been translated into Spanish and is published this year
in Argentina. The unabridged text provides some very interesting details for the
reader to peruse, and the voyage of U-977 was not what it has seemed until now."
The above excerpt is from: [forum.axishistory.com]
"U-977 - 66 days Submerged is Proven Fiction. U-977 left Bergen, Norway on 10
May and judging by the diving and DFs, seems to have sailed on the surface until the end of May. According to the US Navy version, the boat arrived in the Cape Verdes on 14 July and was therefore short on time to have made the entire trip submerged.
The ORIGINAL book about the voyage was Heinz Shaffer's "GEHEIMNIS UM U-977"
published in the German language in Argentina only in 1950. The Argentine Navy
was presented with the Spanish language volume for internal circulation.
To get a wider readership in Europe, Schaffer had to cut out some of the facts and dates to satisfy the various Allies and what everybody has relied on to date as gospel is the expurgated version published in German, Russian, English, and French and Finnish in 1952.
"GEHEIMNIS UN U-977" has been translated into Spanish and is published this year
in Argentina. The unabridged text provides some very interesting details for the
reader to peruse, and the voyage of U-977 was not what it has seemed until now."
The above excerpt is from: [forum.axishistory.com]
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