Pat Zeitoun wrote:
> Lynn and Jess,
>
> Having lived on the Gulf Coast or Florida all of my
life, I wonder why this
> business of U Boats sinking tankers is so little
known. Of course we heard
> of German subs being sunk, and have known there were
sub wreckage off of
> Galveston, here in Texas. Was information about subs
and U Boats being so
> active and apparently successful, kept from the
American public at the time?
No--I've seen newspaper articles from the 1940s talking about
the ships lost to the Germans. But history--the *real*
stuff--isn't taught, not properly. People don't learn about
U-boats in the Gulf, they don't learn about the Biscari
massacres (German & Italian POWs being shot by American
troops), they don't learn about the role of ENIGMA in winning
the war. People are taught safe, potted histories.
jess--sorry for being OTP, everyone....
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