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Letters
Appreciation from Ewe
(from the Guestbook 13 June 2003) I do have comments, for sure. My first is: Pls apologize, if my english is not that good. Its a long time, since I had to speak and write it in Business! So, who ever finds erorrs in spelling or gramma, could keep them! ) Many thanks for this really informative Page! I find it quite surprisingly, that you care for the Gustloff and other Refugee Ships, sunk by end of the WWII. Even your interest in German Marauders of WWI and WWII was quite surprising for me. I have, for reasons whatsoever, a special interest in the Pacific Theatre during WWII and so I found your site by looking for the SAVO Desaster. Your comments and additions are highly informative! As you see, I am from Germany. So my first impressions from WWII where, what I have heared from elder People in my Family, which have served in the Wehrmacht or Navy or Luftwaffe. Later on, I read more and more about it and about, what the Nazis made the War for. So today I could say, we Germans did not loose the War, we where freed from a Regime, which the World has not seen before or since! So with proud, I have served in the German Army as Part of the NATO and as Part of a real democratic Germany. To be honest, one has to understand this, to understand why so many People in Germany where against the US/UK War on Irak, without sufficient Reasons to do so. Thats what you told us for more than 40 Years, we have learned at least! Anyhow, many many thanks for your Work on this Site! I hope you will get the chance of another 20 to 30 Years, to keep the things rolling. As one said here in Germany: As long as we remember, they are still with us! With very kind and warm regards from Germany, to you, your Family and your Friends "down under" Uwe Koeberich
Thank you for taking time to write to me about AHOY. I have not had a look at the Guest Book for a little while, hence the delay in responding to you. My interest in Submarines in particular and the Battle of the Atlantic, stems from my time over 1940/1941I spent as a young Midshipman in HMAS Australia, in the Atlantic.Then immediately after the war I went off to England for over a year to attend various Royal Navy schools there toqualify as a Specialist Torpedo Anti-Submarine Officer. Hence my work on Underwater Warfare The Struggle Against the Submarine Menace During 1939-1945. The German Armed Merchant Raiders of both WW1 and WW2 were of interest to me as these intrepid sailorssailed the world, often not touching port until they returned home, that is, if they were not found and sunk. The Wilhelm Gustloff and other refugee ships moving over a million people in the face of the advancing Russianswas a master exercise, about three times more people saved than at Dunkirk.I have always felt that this feat was in general unknown, and the final loss of Wilhelm Gustloff was the largest loss of life in asingle sinking in Maritime History, and deserved to be more widely known, hence my small attempt to give it someexposure. My site is put together and run from Atlanta Georgia, by my very good friend Terry Kearns, we are a team, I write,he produces, without his expertise none of my work would see the light of day. I owe him a tremendous debt. As I am now at the age of 81, your wish that I keep going another 20/30 years with my work is a lovely thought,unfortunately very unlikely to be fulfilled. Again we thank you for your encouragement. Best wishes from both America and
Australia.
And who knows, wishes sometimes become truth. So anyhow, I wish you as long time as you want! Keep the things going and your Site rolling! With the very best wishes and warmest regards from Germany (even if we feel
in a different way about what is going on in the Iraq or what or what not
should the USA and there Allies do), a Country which I really believe, has been
a Partner and Friend to the Free World, thanks Uwe Köberich |
