Wednesday, December 16, 2009
Book 3 post 2
In October 1939, a German u-Boat entered The British Channel near Scottland and working its way through a maze that seemed unpenatrable, sunk the SCAPA FLow. The Scapa Flow was on of Brittans prized ships. The skipper of the U-Boat returned to Germany and recieved the Knights Cross by Hitler Himself. The British knew that only a spy could have given this information out and decended upon the Orkney Islands. After years of searching, they came up with nothing. In 1942 The American Newspaper Saturday Evening Post stated they knew the spy and it was Retired German Navy Captain Alfred Wehring who went under the name Albert Oertel. It was said that he entered Scottland 12 years earlier and began to collect information. He even helpded to navigate the U-Boat and went back to Germany with the boat. However, when they interviewed people on the Island and showed a picture of Oertel, no one knew who he was. Therefore, the question exists, did Oertel even exist or is it just Spy Lure.
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