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Bismarck was no myth, and only his nine day operation in the North Atlantic is legend. Fact is the Bismarck was a revolution in battleship design, his beam was relatively wider in proportion to his length. This characteristic ran counter to the prevalent desire for more speed, which called for the l...

I always referred to the Bismarck as she growing up. I've been a Bismarck follower since I was in middle school. I'm now 42 years old. But once I started researching my script and found out that Kapitian Zur See Ernst Lindemann wanted the Bismarck called he because of the ships massive size, that's ...

I'm watching the movie right now, and all of these mistakes in the movie as told by the mebers are accurate, but what else can you from a western propaganda movie. Remember history is always written by the victors. The only great WWII movie as seen from both sides is the Longest Day. Which is how my...

Sorry JC, I'd give you my agents name, but he's mine, and we're hoping to get Wolfgang Peterson to direct my Bismarck movie. I've been working on this project for almost a year and I'm not going to let some novice screenwriter steal my idea. Anyway good luck and hope you can get someone to help you ...

Javier's description of the final battle is essentially accurate, the Bismarck was essentially out gunned, that with his inability to manuever left him a sitting duck. I would only add this, for what its worth, while reading Von Mullenheim-Rechberg's book reasearching my screenplay on the Bismarck, ...

Having been a member of this site on and off for the last couple of years it still amazes me that there is such in interest in the ship I have loved and admired for 25years. It is a great testament to his beauty and awe. If I might just say, it doesn't really matter weather he was scuttled or not. W...