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Old 02-23-12, 10:19 AM   #7
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Originally Posted by Dread Knot View Post
Easy thing to say from the comfort of a computer keyboard almost 70 years later, but even Heinz Schaeffer and his crew eventually found themselves in a US POW camp despite the sailing to Argentina stunt. As for Schnee, he may have witnessed what excesses the Red Army was capable of during the evacuation of Danzig's U-Boat bases, and perhaps decided that it wasn't worth alienating the Western Allies any further just to get a Parthian shot in.
I agree.
Even if U-2511 had wiped out the entrire TF HMS Norfolk was part of , that wouldn't have contributed nothing to the German side at that time.

But two years earlier? ..............
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