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Died. Stocky, boyish-looking Commander Günther Prien, 33, Germany's No. 1 naval hero; spurlos versenkt in the Battle of the Atlantic. A shrill-voiced banty, called "little hothead" by his friends, he won the awed admiration of enemy sea fighters as well as his own countrymen by a daring and ingenuity that sank a claimed 235,941 tons of shipping. After his submarine torpedoed H.M.S. Royal Oak inside the heavily mined harbor at Scapa Flow in October 1939, the British Admiralty paid tribute to his "remarkable skill and daring...
...soft-looking Elmo Lincoln, playing a blacksmith into whose custody the captured Kaiser (Rupert Julian) was given after the War. The late Lon (Man of a Thousand Faces) Chaney played walrus-whiskered Admiral von Tirpitz, as mild-looking a Santa Claus as ever ordered an ocean liner spurlos versenkt (sunk without trace...
...surer than shellfire that somebody would brush the dust off this old scarehead. A small new company brought the title up to date as Hitler, the Beast of Berlin, tacked it to a film about the horrors of concentration camps. The picture might have been spurlos versenkt itself had not worried Director Irwin Esmond-of N. Y. State's Education Department (Motion Picture Division) called it "inhuman, sacrilegious and tending to incite to crime." New York censors promptly banned it, almost as quickly reversed their ban after the title was changed to Beasts of Berlin, some 67 feet were...
...catastrophe ... we were saved largely by the incredible folly of our foes." The thing that nearly got England down, says Lloyd George, was the submarine campaign. He implies that if the Admiralty had had their way, by June, 1917, England, and consequently the Allies, would have been spurlos versenkt. The Admiralty wanted more destroyers, or an Act of God, or both; Lloyd George wanted the convoy system. Eventually he got his way, and the Allied cause was made safe for Versailles...
...ruthless German," also as a former student at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, I recommend that he be "spurlos versenkt." LETTERS...