Hello All,
Unfortunately, I personally cannot just leave a situation where a fabricated story of cowardice, deception and falsehood is even considered to have equivalency to reality. This is not a debate between two reasonable opinions where they are equally reasonable interpretations of known facts. It is a determined and carefully planned attempt to present false information in the form of a Conspiracy Theory clouding the reality. If anybody is bored with it, they do not have to read it or continue to contribute. There are plenty of other threads. We are lucky the website owner indulges this debate, and has done for some time. He has provided the vital medium through which
much material of real value has been presented as well as, sadly, a vast amount of hokum.
This
Why nobody, among the deniers, reacted when, in the movie "Sink the Bismarck", Lutjens was depicted as a Nazi fanatic, without any supporting evidence ?
We have the right (based on proven facts) to depict a couple of RN officers as very poor soldiers !
exposes the fact the writer has no understanding of what constitutes a work of fiction, ie a movie, and the differences between that and a serious study of history. It makes clear that he and his co-author consider their generation of this fabrication, and then representing it as if it really happened, is somehow redressing some existing unfair bias, aiming to change reality to a story they prefer, and thus where the motivation for their "intuition" originally came from.
I will shortly have further new, original documentation from National Archives for this site.* I believe this contrasts starkly with witholding the origin of:
I do not think there is any doubt that had Bismarck not being sunk the question of whether the shadowing was adequately performed the night they gave us the slip would have come accutely to the fore ..."
The perceptive reader will note the spelling has changed from the first presentation to this latest version, is that a transliteration correction or an attempt to hide the origin?
Hello Paul Mercer,
You say no-one is winning.....................well, who do you believe?
There are many over the years who have argued against A & A and finally given up, disheartened at their intransigence, disconcerted at their insults and perhaps sensibly deciding they are beyond redemption. Failing to gain adherents might be considered losing. But then getting this tosh into the public domain is a small victory.
*One of the letters I have found is a September 1941 where Tovey is recommending to Pound that Wake-Walker should take over from Tom Phillips as VCNS, when the latter is sent off to command the ill fated mission to Singapore. Hardly likely if either party had imagined for an instant W-W was lacking in qualities anywhere. As we know Wake-Walker was instead promoted to Rear-Admiral and Third Sea Lord.
All the best
wadinga