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Originally Posted by Frank Kelley
Hello Iain,
I think you will find that the real difference was simply that Deutschland was actually built as a merchantman and originally crewed by the North German Lloyd Line, before being crewed by Willies wretched pirates and baby killers! 
Regards Frank |
Very true. Germany went into the war believing that the only use for submarines was as blockade runners. Nobody in the Kriegsmarine had yet envisaged them as attack vessels.
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