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German submarine sends thousand civilians to death.
Filed Under (english, Historia) by Targenor on 25-07-2009
Despite the war luxire liners continued their travels acros the atlantic.
The queen of the sea where Lusitania, untill a german submarine in May 1915 got the ship in firing range. Whit one single torpedo the submarine sent Lusitania to the bottom of the sea. An attack that draged USA in to the war. The sinking of Lustitana gave the kapten of U20 Walther Scwieger, a place on the british list of war criminals. He continued his raids and also got a hit on the canadian steamer RMS Hesperian. But on the 4th of November 1916 during a storm U20 went on ground outside the coast of Jylland.
Instead of the submarine falling in the hands of the enemy Scwieger decided to blow it up.
Just a year later Scwieger died when his new submarine U88 hit a underwatermine.
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