military@att.att.com (Bill Thacker) (10/30/89)
From: military@att.att.com (Bill Thacker) Monday, 30 October, 1939 The German U-56 torpedoes the British battleship HMS Nelson, west of the Orkneys, but the torpedo fails to explode. First Sea Lord Churchill is aboard the Nelson. The saga of the US freighter City of Flint, captured by a German raider, continues. Today, she is reported to have left harbor in Tromsoe, Norway, bound for Hamburg, after a four-hour stop. The Royal Navy steps up efforts to locate the raider Admiral Graf Spee; 4 battleships, 5 carriers, and 14 cruisers are deployed. Great Britain releases a White Paper detailing Nazi concentration camps. The report details numerous atrocities commited against Jews and other minorities in German-occupied territories. The report was prompted as a counter to German claims of British atrocities in South Africa. -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Bill Thacker military@cbnews.att.com Send submissions for "50 Years Ago" to military-request@att.att.com "It must not be thought that these barbaric tortures were exceptional. At Buchenwald these were things of daily occurence." - from "Papers Concerning the Treatment of German Nationals in Germany, 1938-1939."