soc.history.war.world-war-ii

On Thu, 20 Mar 2008 18:14:08 -0400, "Scott M. Kozel"
wrote:

>aspqrz@pacific.net.au (Phil McGregor) wrote:
>>
>> "Scott M. Kozel" wrote:
>>
>> > The ships sunk 12 miles apart. That would indicate that one or both
>>
>> 12 *nautical* miles.
>
>A nautical mile is 1.15 statute mile ... not much difference.

Sloppy terminology in line with the other sloppy claims you made by
... mistakenly, let us assume ... adducing arguments to me that I
patently, on even the most cursory readings of my posts, *never* made?

Evidence, I would have thought, of a sort, of your thought processes.
>
>> >ships still had a considerably amount of power after the battle, that
>> >both ships stayed afloat for hours, and that it wasn't possible for the
>> >Kormoran crew to massacre the Sydney crew.
>>
>> Did *I* ever say that this happened?
>
>No

Thank you for admitting your error.

It is, however, surprising that you then continue to make your
irrelevant argument about what you now accept I *DID NOT* say ...
except, as noted, that it reveals something of your thought processes.

[irrelevant argument deleted]

>> I referred to the allegations that Detmers fired his torpedoes BEFORE
>> lowering the Dutch Flag (or, possibly, had already raised the White
>> flag as a sign of surrender) and raising the German flag, which made
>> the attack an act of Piracy.
>>
>> Subject to the death penalty and certainly a war crime as well under
>> the Hague conventions.
>
>Allegations about that battle that are unprovable, so why do you make
>them?

Indeed.

And, since you have been completely unable to grasp it ... what has
been my argument ALL ALONG?

That the German accounts are, essentially, unprovable.

That there are reasons why they may have lied.

That, indeed, alternative accounts suggesting why they might have lied
are, equally unprovable.

That, therefore, all those ... seemingly including your good self ...
who are claiming that the Officers of the Sydney were fools is basing
their claims on ...

"allegations about that battle that are unprovable"

There is no evidence that you have grasped that even now ... so it
seems.

Or have you, at last?

One wonders.

Phil

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