Operation Pastorius: Hitler's Unfulfilled Dream of a New York in Flames -- Eike Frenzel, Spiegel Online
Even before World War II, Nazi strategists came up with a number of plans to strike New York City -- whether with super missiles, kamikaze pilots, long-range bombers or secret agents. Some were ambitious and some were foolish, but all of them failed.
Captain Hans-Heinz Lindner was gradually losing his nerve. As dawn broke on June 13, 1942, the first cars were already driving along the waterfront in the village of Amagansett, Long Island. But the U-202 was stuck. The gray steel colossus lay perched on a sand bank in shallow water less than 200 meters (656 feet) from the shore, as helpless as a beached whale. In just a few hours, anyone who walked by would be able to see the German U-boat sticking up out of the Atlantic.
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My Comment: 55+ years later, 19 Al Qaeda hijackers were successful in doing what Hitler could only dream about.
1 comment:
hehe if Hitler would have gotten on a Machine that is loaded with Fuel and take him safely to New York, he´d have done it! I wouldn´t say today´s terrorists are any more imaginative than the SS / Nazi staff was back then.. and that is good for us!
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