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Bunny Logic (Balz)
Lt. Otto Kalb writes:
U-45
26 October 1939
We've been operating in and around AN13 mainly listening to British destroyers going up and down the coast. Nevertheless we had logged 40,000 BRT despite several dud torpedoes and had 3 eels left.
Balz sat in the officers' mess embroidering bunnies on his pillowcase. Bernard stood watching him for several minutes. "What are you doing, Herr Kaleun?"
"I'm busy embroidering bunnies."
"That's not a very dramatic thing for a Kaleun to do," Bernard said.
"I will show you drama when I beat you over the head. This is logic. Do you understand logic?"
"On yes, I'm very logical. I always test buttons and levers and valves to see if they work."
"Place your hands inside your pockets and keep them there."
"Jawhol, her Kaleun. But I don't understand your bunny logic."
"Hear those destroyers going up and down and around us?"
Bernard Nodded.
"And what do you think they are doing?"
"They are trying to find us."
"Good lad. They won't find us. See the logic?"
"No, Herr Kaleun."
"They are looking for blood thirsty Huns and evil submarine commanders. By embroidering bunnies, I fool them. And if they find us, how would an Englander look if he reported sinking a U-Boat furnished with bunny pillowcases? He'd be laughed right out of the RN."
Balz finished his embroidering and called out the choir to practice the Bunnies Rule The Waves Hoochi-Woochie.
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