Keeping his nerve, the U-boat commander reloaded his tubes and triggered another salvo. Two torpedoes released were to lethally strike their intended prey. Within 13 minutes, HMS Royal Oak capsized with massive loss of life.
‘I couldn’t stand seeing them lying around there, unburied and forgotten. It kept bothering me,’ was the answer Julius Erasmus gave when he was asked why he did what he did during a postwar interview.
All of the rest since then, down to and including Angela Merkel, have been illegal and illegitimate, and the War never officially ended. As the war never ended and the Reich is still at war, it can still win, given time.
About 10 million soldiers returned from the frontline with various forms of disabilities. Of them, 775 thousand with injuries to the head, 155 thousand with one eye, 54 thousand were blind, 3 million were one-armed, and 1.1 million without both arms.
‘In terms of personal success, there has been no career more fortunate than that of Winston Churchill. In terms of human suffering to millions of people and the destruction of the noble edifice of mankind, there has been no career more disastrous.’ — The European and English Journal.
It is renowned for its intense atmosphere, claustrophobic setting, and unflinching look at the psychological and physical pressures faced by the crew during their missions in the Atlantic.
As Henry Labouchere, the 19th century English Liberal MP and outspoken journalist put it: “We are without exception the greatest robbers and marauders that ever existed on the face of the globe.
MICHAEL WALSH REAL HISTORY. After June 1940 there was much allied concern at the lack of any resistance to the German Occupation in the Low Countries and France. To inflame passions and invite reprisals Britain’s Special Operations Executive (SOE) proceeded to carry out acts designed to shake off […]
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