WUWA WunderWaffen: El Proyecto Atómico Aleman

Invitado · 13 Abr 2004 01:27

Nuevo post en la seccion de relatos que narra el papel desempeñado por el U234 en la guerra atomica.

Redwine · 13 Abr 2004 23:20

Excelente trabajo...... increible la cantidad de datos y de muy alta calidad !

Tengo un CD completo acumulado durante años de las "wonder weapons", son miles de paginas web...........

Si necesitas informacion de algo especifico no dudes en pedirmelo.........

Mil gracias por tu trabajo y tu tiempo.........

Invitado · 13 Abr 2004 23:48

Muy agradecido por tu comentario, no dudes que te mande un mail solicitandote informacion.
GRACIAS

akerberg · 14 Abr 2004 00:05

Berger · 14 Abr 2004 02:37

At the end of the war ,the german submarine U-234 ,under command of captain Fehler ,sailed to Japan in a secret mission ,loaded with military secrets ( in particular about infra-red technology ) ,210 tons of the most recent german waeponry ( a dismantled Me-262 was on board ), radars prototypes ,samples of Panzerfausten , new kind of explosives ,and 23 metalic boxes with 560 kilos of uranium to allows Japan to pursue the german research on nuclear weapons.
Even during day May 8th 1945 ,they received a message of Doenitz ,ordering them to carry on their mission and that his orders of surrender for the submarines where not concerning the U-234...
But two days later ,Fehler learn by the radio that Japan have broke his ties with Germany and that in Japan ,the germans residents was arrested ...Then they picked up an allied message proclaiming that all german U-boots on sea were ordered to surrender in an allies harbour ,if not they would be considered as “pirates” since their government has capitulate .
On board of U-234 ,the officers had a difficult decison to make .Some wanted to carry on the mission to Japan . (which I think they should have done “for the honor” ; two japaneses officers were on board .Feeling betrayed by the germans they committed suicide .) , some others wanted to reach a neutral country ,but at the end captain Fehler opted to surrender to the US Navy because of the uranium they were transporting .He tought that this would help the americans in the ,soon to come ,“cold war” against the russians . Now the USA were perceived as a wall against bolshevism ,just as Germany has been on the eastern front . A political fantasy that coasted the life of more than one german officer ... the following events were pretty sad and demostrated how much Fehler has been wrong :

By May 14th 1945 the war was over for the U-234 which surrended to the US detroyer SUTTON (DE771) . The german crew and officers were treated fairly by the american sailors of the Sutton . But by May 19th they were transferred to the US Coast-Guard ship “Argo”. There a coasty beated Fehler by a butstroke to the jaw because Fehler didn’t smiled to him . It was only the beginning of mistreatments . After the war ,Fehler will says that he and his men were treated “like animals “ by the Coast-Guards of the “Argo”) ... when the CG ship reached Portsmouth and Fehler and the german officers was about to leave the ship ,captain Charles Winslow , commander of the “Argo”, yelled to them : “ Out of my boat ,you nazis gangsters !”

( It seems that Winslow has this attitude because of the presence of journalists in the harbour’s docks .He wanted ,maybe ,to see his “historical” words in the next day press...Personnally I think that the Coast-Guards – at last the ones of the “Argo” – where uneasies about their un -warrior roles . Few Coast-guards ships have seen real action during the war ,and like many cushies in many armies ,they needed to bragg about their “valour”. In this case against defenseless POWs .)

The german officers and crew of the U-234 were jailed at the prison of Boston ( Charles street.) There Fehler will earch the endless awls of somebody repeatdly beated .He learned later that it was captain Fritz Stienhoff ,commander of U-873 ,who was many time tortured by US guards . Scared and desmoralized ,Fehler tried to committ suicide ,he broke his glasses and cutted his veins . Brehme ,former medic of U-873, asked the US guards for a blood transfusion of emergency .This operation was delayed the most by the prison’authorities ,but at the end ,Fehler was saved ,thanks to the first aid of german medic Brehme .

After the war ,in a declaration in 2001 , Fehler will says : “What a difference with the gentlemanly fashion we had treated our POWs aboard the “Atlantis”) - Fehler has served on the Atlantis before on the U-234 - he also declared that he had committed a mistake in surrending to americans and that if he had to do it again ,he would go to Japan or to a neutral country ... Enough said .

book “ Germany’s last mission to Japan ,the failed voyage of the U-234 “ by J. Mark Scalia - a former US seal and expert in naval themes - published by the Naval Institute Press , Annapolis ,USA .

and the declarations of captain Fehler to the french historical magazine “Aventures de l’Histoire” number 4 ,April 2001 , published monthly by editions Didro .

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