Dear Ladies and Gentlemen, a two part documentary about the fight about Norway in 1940 on Germany 1 TV, ARD, starting on Monday, Nov. 5th at 21:00h local,"Krieg in der Arktis.
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Hello MPC and All, Clio`s question concerns Aug. 1944. At that time the situation in the East was serious but not yet acute insofar as to require for Dönitz to take naval action described by you. Theses actions were taken in the first quarter in 1945.
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Dear Ladies and Gentlemen, please let`s not forget that by September 1944, the Germans had been licked by Monty in Africa, by Patton in Africa and Sicily, by Stalin at Stalingrad,by Eisenhauer on D-Day, Italy was out of the war more or less, Patton was racing through France kicking German a... most effectively, Paris by that time already in de Gaules hands, the Russians closing in on the East,
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Hello PatW and JNM, thanks for your responses and if may please point out as to the subject matter that Erich Topp starts his biography Odyssey of a Uboat -Commander by trying to explain to the reader this tragedy from his point of view, printing Guthry`s song full length and that the hellish sceneries when his torpedoes hit were haunting him to his days. Also very moving in this book, when h
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Hello Clio and All, Since I had to check a few things on the forum I stumbled about these links which might concern your sublect-matter.
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Dear Ladies and Gentemen, a very sad incident happened 66 years ago: May those brave American sailors rest in peace and be not forgotten.
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Hello Clio and All, please check: and please look into search under Dönitz and f.e. my name and you may find some thoughts which might be helpful to your inquire.
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Hello Doc, just donate this "a 1/2 link piece" of U 505 to the museum in the USA where they have worked their f... a.. of to preserve this boat, I might suggest. And I do no not think this forum is the right place.
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Hello MPC, maybe this link might be helpful in answering your inquire, at least basically:
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Hallo Barry, I'll sure join you and please give my sincere condolences to his family from a German who appreciates his work for trying to preserve a memorial of WWII.
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Hallo MPC, you are perfectly right, sorry about this, maybe "Hildesheimer" = Alzheimer light. Btw there is movie out about Bonhöffers tragic end.
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Dear Ladies and Gentlemen, about Canaris: Hope this helps about "murky" and him being quite different from other brass, being murdered on explicit orders by H accompanied by another great uboat officer Niemöller to the gallows.
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Dear Ladies and Gentlemen, on Sunday, Sept. 9th on German TV II, ZDF that is, at 23:35h local ZDF-History presents: "Mythos Atlantikschlacht" Die Wahrheit über H`s Seekrieg. the truth about H`s war on the seas: Preview by ZDF: ZDF-History Mythos "Atlantikschlacht" - Die Wahrheit über Hitlers Seekrieg Für die NS-Propaganda war der Atlantik einer der wertvol
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Dear Ms. Smith, please try on this forum General Discussion in your mother tongue.
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Hello Gentlemen, Fleischarenwerke translates into meat production - plant to distinguish from your local butchery. Guten Appetit.
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Dear Sir, hope you have a nice time in Germany; where will all you Gentlemen meet over here?; maybe I could tip you off on some sightseeing events in the area of your getting together. Have a nice trip to CE.
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Dear Sir, here is the report from Der Spiegel on the same subject matter: although in German more or less reporting and affirming or better picking up on the article you so kindly let us all now about. Hope you are doing alright and all the best for You and your family. About the time you started your active duty as a US-Naval officer my parents met in St. Nazaire.
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Hello Jean Noel, thank you very much for your message.Been quite a bit on the road as of lately and still do so. What would be interesting for me as a German but also for the other forum members what kind of reasoning the French submarines would tell their friends in the UK why in the UK a German WWII - u boat should be saved. You have a nice day my friend.
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Hello Jean Noel and All, thank you for your message and effort to check with our friend Luc. As to Kaleunt just to be on the safe side, I am a former AirForce man and old wise crack in Germany goes like that: Soldaten des Heers, Männer der Marine, meine Herren der Luftwaffeto which my father used to respond to: you are crazy and remember you are talking to the LORDS.
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Hello MPC and All, I believe,MPC, that is a very good thought and I think you should go ahead and contact those people and maybe our friend Jean Noel could contact their French counterparts. On the other hand as a German I still am aware that our friends in the UK are still a bit touchy about "Don`t talk about the war".
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Hello MPC and All, added my name but had a little problem with my computer, so hope it worked out. Thanks for your effort as UK man to preserve a German-Uboat, one of the worst nightmares of Sir Winston Chruchill.
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Dear Ladies and Gentlemen, on German TV again I saw the TV-series about DAS BOOT. As kind of an introduction of each part at the beginning a quiet and neutral male voice in the off explains basically: “ The tide has turned against the German U-boats. The commander, a former merchant officer, of the boat is none of H’s Hurrapatrioten but a settled and matter of fact character. He is thirty
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Hello Hubertus, my father Dr. med. Imfried Hüsken on the last patrol of U 2513, plus with the flotilla in St. Nazaire in 1940/41 and serving for the flotilla in the Balck Sea in 1944. Thanks for your very efficient work
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Hello Jan Noell, dear Ladies and Gentlemen, I believe we have the (!) expert on HLW as member on this forum and that is our charming and intelligent PhD-Lady IO from the cradle of Europe, Greece, who I am pretty sure is able and willing to answer your interesting question as to the best of her knowledge. She has helped as a great deal with her expertise to get a grip on matters concerning U 96
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Dear Ladies and Gentlemen, the photo shows a member of the navy in rank of at least Bootsmann, also called in these days as they are today. Portepee-Unteroffizier, see ranks for navy: Excerpt: „Das Portepee (frz. porte-épée = Degentrage, Degengehenk) war ursprünglich eine um Griff und Bügel einer Hiebwaffe und das Handgelenk des Kämpfers geschlungene Schlaufe, die das Hera
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Hello Stan Norcom, dear Ladies and Gentlemen, as to the request about Prisen Order, I would suggest as an English translation, German Sea Prize Ordinance for Naval Warfare, the first link is said ordinance of Aug. 12th 1939 issued by the Reichsregierung. Prise (=French Word) in German a.o. Einziehen, Kapern, Wegnehmen, in English o.a. Seize, Capture a ship After hostilities commenced t
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Dear Ladies and Gentlemen, hello Paul and All, as to this subject-matter be that in general or particular concerning single uboat-commanders I recommend: I believe Tonya Allen has done a very good job in wirtting this excellent review and what I found from a German's point of view kind of a positive "surprise"as to why a Canadian Professor of Germanistic and Captain to Sea
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Hello Jean Noel, Paul and All, as far as I know German Navy policy in theses days, even prior to H. taken over as chancler, had it that servicemen joining the Navy and were members of what party ever had to make sure membership of party during time of service was either inactive or even had to be cancelled altogether by order of navy high command. According to our forum Prien joined the nav
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Hello Jean Noel and All, “G. prefer blondes” to be followed by a sequel “but they marry brunettes” or something like that. As to your quotation from “Das Boot” when der Alte visited das “Gespenst”, Johann, if I remember correctly, the last words of der Alte were: “steht ja auch beinahe so in den Dienstvorschriften”, “cautions”, almost like that taught by the handbook
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