I don't consider this to be OT. After all, in order to write
effect and interesting fiction, writers need to delve past
the "safe and potted" history, and dredge up what people are
afraid to face.
Andrew
--- Jess Nevins <
jjnevins@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>
>
> 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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