Group: soc.history.war.world-war-ii
From: aspqrz@pacific.net.au (Phil McGregor)
Date: Wednesday, March 19, 2008 3:34 PM
Subject: Re: HMS Sydney has been found

On Wed, 19 Mar 2008 11:18:11 -0400, "L2008"
wrote:

>"Rich" wrote in message
>news:a9deaa1a-ceba-4a98-9386-2b5a0e573c74@u72g2000hsf.googlegroups.com...
>
>> About the only think I can think of was poor damage control/
>> communications that led to her suddenly capsizing or a fire that
>> eventually led to a magazine explosion?
>
>The German crew would have headd the explosion.

Which would tell them exactly *nothing* about whether Detmers had
opened fire under a false flag.

> There were enough German survivors (and not all lied)

1) Do you have independently verified proof of this?

No? Then it must be discounted.

2) Were those alleged "non-lying" survivors in a position to actually
KNOW whether Detmers had ordered the attack under a false flag or not?

You *don't* know?

Well!

Phil

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