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4th Annual Convention – France & Germany
Tape H-9
In France - We go where only SHARKHUNTERS can go - into the massive U-boat bunkers at Brest and Lorient, this time WITH CAMERAS ROLLING! You will tour all through and around these famous U-boat bunkers on this tape. We see the mansion jokingly called Sardinenschloss (Sardine Castle) where Admiral Dönitz had U-Boat headquarters at Kerneval.
Then we board the train for the overnight ride through France and Germany where we visit with dozens of U-Bootfahrer, a few Luftwaffe veterans and even some Waffen SS veterans. We tour the ancient fortress Wilhelmstein where the first German submarine was built and tested; we visit the ancestral home of General Scharnhorst – Bordenau.
We go in famed Wewelsburg Castle (photo left), home of Himmler’s Teutonic Knights, and we are in the underground ceremonial chamber formerly not open to visitors – but SHARKHUNTERS are always welcome where others are not.
We also tour the memorial statue to Hermann, the farmer/soldier who led the rout of three Roman legions in the Teuterburg Forest by German peasant soldiers.
We tour all through the only Type VII-C left in the world – with her Skipper!
There were dinners with several U-Bootkameradschaft (U-Boat Veterans Associations); we visit the beautifully restored Ju 52 that came from the bottom of a lake in Norway; there is the Welcome Dinner; another dinner at the Luftwaffe Base where so many American planes departed with cargoes of food and supplies for Berlin during the Berlin Air Lift.
We are in Berlin on the actual day of reunification with cameras rolling! We were right there when it all happened - the bands playing, people rejoicing - it's all on this tape.
All this and much, much more is on this nearly eight-hour long tape.
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