Posted on 07/05/2018 10:56:27 AM PDT by Gamecock
Four months after the Pearl Harbor attacks, Kapitanleutnant Reinhard Hardegen decided that Americans should see for themselves what war with Adolf Hitler's Germany was going to look like.
He began with Florida sunbathers. On April 11, 1942, Hardegen's submarine, U-123, torpedoed the tanker SS Gulfamerica off Jacksonville. He maneuvered U-123 around the flaming wreck and surfaced between the SS Gulfamerica and the beach. He sank it with U-123's deck gun.
Hardegen later wrote in his log: "All the vacationers had seen an impressive special performance at [President Franklin D.] Roosevelt's expense. A burning tanker, artillery fire, the silhouette of a U-boat -- how often had that been seen in America?"
Hardegen was one of the few "Unterseeboot" commanders to survive the war. Most did not, as the U.S. turned to the convoy system and sonar to devastate the "wolfpacks" and keep open the supply lines to Britain.
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Germany is not, has been nor ever will be an ally of The United States.
Brave men? Are you serious? These bastards were serving an evil regime that sought to dominate the world F**k them.
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The German republic was for sure an evil republic, those that did what they were told surely served an evil leader but had little choice. That being said, I served on a Polaris boat for 4 years that would have killed more people in a few moments than Hitler did in 6 years, I didn’t consider myself evil.
Evil and brave are not synonymous.
They were brave men.
No, they weren’t brave men. They were servile scum furthering the evil ambitions of a genocidal madman.
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