avoid the future embarassment that will come from suggesting you know something you don't....Because this sort of behavior undercuts the primary purpose of the forum and is also disruptive, I suggest you do not try it again
Isn't this the same kind of "quote" in posts you admonish us for and ultimately censor?
I am not embarrassed at all my man, but another poster should be (embarrassed) because of his atrocious spelling while attacking me.
(you failed to notice that though, the attack not the spelling.)
Let's see....can I come up w/some information to appease my many detractors...keep in mind I only have two (2) books devoted to the Kriegsmarine.
Well first of all here is another case of helping the German get to heaven by the Allies...
Case 1, KC winner Lemp, commander of U-110 was machine gunned in the water. It says that the destroyers Bulldog and Broadway destroyed the sub but somehow he was killed while swimming back trying to scuttle his boat." Odd, the two destroyers "destroy the boat but somehow he is killed swimming back to scuttle...did he announce his intentions I wonder or just forget his wallet? We'll never know, huh?
Case 2, another KC w/Oakleaves winner Werner Henke taken back to Ft Meade, according to the reference a secret Interrogation camp...I will let you decide, but "shot while trying to escape" (wink wink)
(both of the above from KC Holders of the U-Boat Service, Franz Kurowski)
Here is a link to Submarine atrocities by all sides (Sorry Heinz):
http://www.geocities.com/Pentagon/Camp/3166/
what is funny is they list many U-Boat atrocities but according to this"Heinz Eck and 2 of his crew were executed after the war, the only U-boat commander to be even tried for war crimes.":
http://www.uboat.net/boats/u852.htm
So indeed fellows I have backed up my little accusations w/source material (sorry Heinz) that shows indeed that GERMANS were executed (sorry only three that I have found thus far but I only have 2 books) for the same "crime" as the allied sailor got away with. Let's also remember the Wahoo who could've murdered up to 6,000 Japanese soldiers/sailors (shooting them in the water after their transport was sunk), but as someone so eloquently put it in another thread "the circumstances of the incident have not been established beyond a reasonable doubt." Gee, seems awfully simple to me...sub fires torpedo, transport sinks, Japs alive in the water, Japs dead in the water...sub leaves (though a little lighter because of spent ammo.) Where is the mystery?
Top my stuff above off w/Donitz being tried as a war criminal for basically nothing that all the other submarine commanders didn't do and one of my other posts where "U-Boat sailors" were segregated in the POW camps along w/SS & Falschirmjager for additional punishment (additional years of internment)...and I have proved my point, backed my position that Germans (regardless of Branch of service), were punished (some executed) for the same stuff we did every day too... some people deny it, and others here do not care.
I for one believe a "sin is a sin" regardless, which I do believe fits in "perfectly" with this "apolitical" forum...or is it "apolitical" as long as you believe like you do?