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Re: U-boats off Cuba
Posted by: Ken Dunn ()
Date: November 25, 2007 11:01PM

Hi Larry,

The following simply never happened:

"I understood from Raul (Hernandez a friend), that a German U-boat surfaced just off Havana and the captain tried to get Cuba to join the war on the side of Germany. However, as soon as the U-boat left, Batista (who was in his first term as president 1940-1944) declared war on Germany."

It is a myth - one of many. U-boat commanders were not diplomats and nobody from a
U-boat came ashore in Cuba during the war.

Several U-boats did operate around Cuba during the war though but I am afraid that the commander from one of them trying to influence a country to join their side in a war is laughable.

For the occasions where someone was landed from a U-boat during the war see: Showell, Jak P. Mallmann. U-boats at War Landings on Hostile Shores. Shepperton: Ian Allan Publishing Ltd., 2000. ISBN: 1-55750-864-X. Copyright: Jak P. Mallmann Showell, 2000.

Regards,

Ken Dunn

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