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Everyone is afraid of German submarines.īinoculars scan the horizon, searching for the familiar silhouette of a steamer, a picture of which is in the hands of all British commanders. Feverish worry and nervous concern fills the bridges of these cruisers and destroyers, for the hunters are also the hunted. British warships cruise the ocean, their radio signals forming an invisible net over the gray northern seas. Giradet, 1940).Īltmark - Baralong: Documents on British Warfare The source: Peter Hagen, “ Altmark - Baralong.” Dokumente britischer Kriegsführung (Essen - Berlin: Kupfertiefdruck W. Although the publisher is not listed as the party’s propaganda office (the Reichspropagandaleitung), it was in fact the producer of material. The Baralong was a World War I British Q-ship (disguised as a merchant ship) that had sunk the German submarine U-27, then shot its surviving crew members in the water.Ībout a half million copies of this booklet were printed. Doherty, “The Attack on the Altmark: A Case Study in Wartime Propaganda,” Journal of Contemporary History 38 (2003), pp.

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For full details on the affair, see Martin A. The incident involved violations of Norwegian neutrality on both sides.

The German ship Altmark was attempting to slip home through Norwegian territorial waters when it was seized in February 1940 by the British warship HMS Cossack, which freed about three hundred captured British seamen. Background: This is one of the early propaganda efforts of World War II.