Atlantis?
January 2nd, 2009 From
>Date: Thu, 14 Aug 1997 21:44:45 EST
>From: EDWARD WITTENBERG
>To: MARHST-L@POST.QUEENSU.CA, MAHAN@MICROWRKS.COM
>CC: wew@papa.uncp.edu
>Subject: Atlantis?
>Precendence: bulk
>Sender: mahan-owner@microworks.net
>
>The following is an excerpt from a post by Jim Vaughan on the World
>War II list (WWII-L@LISTSERV,ACSU.BUFFALO.EDU)
>
> > The following is from “Hirohito – Behind the Myth” by Edward Behr
>pp280-290.
>
> “The last German submarine to make the dangerous, lengthy
> run between Germany and Japan was the U-234, an XBU
> U-boat displacing 2177 tons, whose captain Johann Heinrich
> Fehler, though only 35 was one of the most experienced
> German navy captains still alive, the former commander of
> the decoy ship ‘Atlantis’, which had lured countless allied
> ships to their doom”. >
>As far as I know, the only ATLANTIS in German service (the ship was
>the former Hansa GOLDENFELS) was a commerce raider under the
>command of Bernhard Rogge, which was sunk by H.M.S. DEVONSHIRE in
>the South Atlantic on November 22, 1941. According to Edwin P. Hoyt’s
>_RAIDER 16_, there was a lieutenant Fehler (no first name given)
>assigned as the ship’s demolitions expert. Hoyt indicates the Fehler
>survived the sinking, so it is possible that this is the same man. Can
>someone tell me whether or not there was another “Atlantis” in German
>service, and if so, was Fehler her captain? Also, what exactly is a
>’decoy’ ship?
>
>Thanks.
>
>Edward Wittenberg
>wew@papa.uncp.edu