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Originally Posted by DirtyACE
So I take it the Spreewald wasn't flying the German flag aside from being in the wrong position? Would you see his flag through the periscope?
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Yes. The true story is that the "Spreewald" was flying the norwegian flag as the merchat "Elg" of that nationality. She used wrong radio codes and was in the wrong position, so Cremer sunk it. He just couldnīt imagine that he was in fact sinking a german merchant... who carried aboard 300 prisoners taken by the raider "Kormoran".
This story is taken from a phantastic U-boote page in spanish, Uhistoria.com:
http://www.u-historia.com/uhistoria/...inhistoria.htm
If you know spanish language, donīt forget to visit this page. Simply phantastic.
And also phantastic the work of GWX team: I received this message (a lot of messages between BdU and Cremer) while I was heading to Freetown aboard my boat.
GWX devteam, uhistoria. nice work!!
