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...Bismarck was one of the more peculiar and dramatic sea fights of World War II. On May 21, 1941, the day after the German invasion of Crete, the 45,000-ton battleship Bismarck was reported steaming out of the Kattegat into the North Sea, escorted by the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen. Two days later, the pride of the Nazi navy was sighted speeding south toward the shipping lanes of the open Atlantic. Two British ships of the line engaged her. Bismarck quickly sank H.M.S. Hood, the biggest ship in the British battle fleet, and battered Prince of Wales so badly...
...West Germany's Wesphalia "camping bus," which looks like Volkswagen's utility bus, has beds for two in the back. Price: $2,195. A second German car: the NSU Sport Prinz with seats for four, a two-cylinder engine that gets 55 miles per gal., and a price...
...death without emotion-though it is on record that she once said "Pardon" to a woman friend whom she had just betrayed. The Cat continued her broadcasts to London and because of phony messages sent in her name, the British failed to trap the warships Scharnhorst, Gneisenau and Prinz Eugen; and it was she who informed the Nazis of the approaching British Commando raid on St. Nazaire. Out of a total British raiding force of 353. no less than 212 were killed or missing...
...Prinz, an almost grown-up-looking car, although barely 9 ft. long, 4 ft. high...
Conspirator Fabian von Schlabrendorff testified that he had been chained to a bed on the fourth floor of the notorious Prinz Albrechstrasse headquarters of the Reich Security Office. His body was stretched with mechanical devices, screws were driven into his thighs and thumbs. An SS man told him: "It has lasted a long time for the little admiral [Canaris]." Schlabrendorff asked the SS man if he wasn't sickened by his job. The shrugging reply: "We get a bonus of schnapps and blutwurst...