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Originally Posted by Hottentot (Post 1757214)

Here is the U-boat.net's article on the ship

And here is how they tell the events:

Edit: Also, it appears Mengersen survived the war. I suppose they would have tried him as war criminal if such shooting had happened.

Thanks for the info,

really weird that the newspaper talked about crew gunning the survivors! The article was from international news agencies, STT-Reuters-AFP. There was a mention about the capsizing lifeboat after the shoot. But it almost read like it was a massacre. It's something like this in english: "Some of the 85 crewmembers managed to get to lifeboats, but at the same time the crew of the u-boat was firing them with machineguns". :dead:

What?!

I've two book references to the sinking and neither make mention of shooting of survivors.

Sounds like a journalist doing what a journalist does, take two seperate stories and cherry-pick the sensational bits to make one gripping read. Don't let facts get in the way of a good story! :nope: