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To: dybdahl who wrote (62021)	3/16/2010 1:34:55 AM
From: Snowshoe	Read Replies (1) of 217882

>>"Ah, Fische"<< Another story like that... German sailor who refused to obey Nazi orders to blow up Bordeaux dies aged 91 . . . in France dailymail.co.uk In Bordeaux in 1944 it fell to Sgt. Stahlschmidt - a weapons and demolitions expert - to lead a detachment that defused British sea mines laid to try to stop German vessels from entering the Bay of Biscay. In August of that year the Allies were steamrolling their way through France following the successful June landings in Normandy on D-Day. On August 19 the order came from Berlin to destroy the entire port infrastructure - stretching over seven miles - before retreating. The date was fixed for August 26. Stahlschmidt, ordered to carry out the devastation, struck first on 22 August. A bunker at Rue Raze in the docks was filled with detonators, explosives, plungers, timers and other hardware needed for the spiteful demolition. He destroyed the lot with dynamite. He said years later he was 'sorry' that some German soldiers had died in the mammoth blast that shook practically the whole of Bordeaux. But he added; "My family were Huguenots (protestant Christians) and I acted according to my Christian conscience. I could not accept that the port of Bordeaux be wantonly destroyed when the war was clearly lost,'

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