Feb 21, 2014
"Sorry for Sinking You" says U-Boat Commander to Survivors of A Merchant Ship He Had Just Sent to the Bottom of the Sea
“Sorry for Sinking You” says U-Boat Commander to Survivors of A Merchant Ship He Had Just Sent to the Bottom of the Sea
“Goodnight. Sorry for sinking you”
Kommandant of U-68 to survivors of SS City of Cairo which he had just sunk.
Korvettenkapitän Karl-Friedrich Merten
Kommandant of U-68
Photo courtesy of Uboat.net
The words in the headline were spoken by Korvettenkapitän Karl-Friedrich Merten, Kommandant of U-68, after sinking the British merchant ship City of Cairo on 6 November 1942. After the ship went…
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