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Old 05-16-08, 07:48 AM   #9
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Originally Posted by surf_ten
I been reading up on the Germany's top tonnage aces and that exact senario happen to Oberleutnant Wolfgang Lüth. It seems so ironic after all this man had to endure to survive the war only to be cut down by some trigger happy guard. Perhaps the name of the guard was Bernard.
The sentry was only doing his duty it was Lüth who was at fault. It has also been suggested that it was suicide or perhaps the guard just did not hear his response, I suppose we will never know. Not sure if this happened in a PoW camp though, I read the book about him and thought it took place in the Flensburg Naval Academy just after the war had ended.

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