#Virtual sailor lusitania movie
This in particular, to recognize the dubious events around the torpedo launch shown in the movie and described en detail in books, to then re-assess the alleged refusal to obey an order and recognize an unwanted effect. According to those, Vögele served during WW I some years with the Second Naval Aviation Group at Wilhelmshaven, and from February 1917 as stoker on board torpedo boat S-142 in the North Sea.īefore we focus on the legacy of the myth about an insubordination on board a U-Boat of the Imperial German Navy, we should remember some basic mathematic knowledge when assessing the above mentioned key sequence.
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However, there are records in exist of a certain Carl-Alfons Vögele, who stemmed from the city of Straßburg, which was part of the German Reich until 1918. Any record or other document of an alleged court martial against a Charles Vögele does not exist, as well as there is no proof of his alleged three years imprisonment at the Kiel Naval prison. There has never been a “Charles Vögele” on board U 20, and a refusal to obey an order during the sinking of the Lusitania has not been recorded anywhere.
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8 of their “Marinenachrichtenblatt” (= “Naval Newsletter”), having found out that the story about the alleged insubordination of a certain Charles Vögele is utter nonsense and absolutely fabricated. Our friends from the “Arbeitskreis Krieg zur See 1914-1918 e.V.” (= “Working Committee The War at Sea 1914-1918 ltd.”) have done some research, as published it in March 2012 in volume Nr. The current version of the German issue of “Wikipedia” simply repeats the story, the movie´s “helmsman”, Charles Vögele, is even promoted to the job of “First Officer” of SM U 20. Since, the alleged insubordination by Charles Vögele and his subsequent court martial and sentence to three years imprisonment at the Kiel Naval prison enjoys a healthy life and is treated like a fact. The movie´s script has adopted that sequence from Naval historic literature about the Lusitania incident, as it has developed from a letter of 09 November 1972 to the editor of the French newspaper “Le Monde”, to a preliminary highlight created in 1981 by the Irish authors Des Hicksey and Gus Smith through their book “Seven Days to Disaster: The Sinking of the Lusitania” (German edition in 1982: “Lusitania – Die Chronik der letzten Fahrt eines Ozeanriesen”), followed by a similar book in 2002 by the British author Diana Preston “Lusitania: An Epic Tragedy” (German edition in 2004 “Wurde torpediert, schickt Hilfe – Der Untergang der Lusitania 1915”). The climax is the refusal of one of the crew members, “helmsman” Charles Vögele, to obey the order of the Commanding Officer, Kapitänleutnant (= Lieutenant Commander) Walther Schwieger, to pass on the torpedo firing order to the torpedo department, because “the target would be a passenger liner with women and children embarked”. One of the key sequences of the movie is devoted to the events on board U 20, showing the period from spotting the English passenger liner, to target evaluation, to eventually launching the fatal torpedo.
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In the US the movie was shown first time on, the BBC presented it first time on, and the ARD in Germany showed it first time on 28 December 2008. Meanwhile, specialized channels such as “History Channel”, “Disco-very Channel”, “National Geographic”, as well as “N 24”, “ntv” and “Phoenix” (last shown on 01st of March 2012) present this movie frequently.
#Virtual sailor lusitania tv
Since, this TV movie has been shown repeatedly on British, US and German TV, also many other countries, as this movie is been marketed very efficiently. 1,200 people on board lost their lives, including 128 US citizens, which led to severe political tensions afterwards. On, a 90minutes British-German TV Co-Production with prominent actors was shown to the public, which presented through a movie the events around the sinking of the 31,000 GRT British passenger liner Lusitania by the U-Boat U 20 of the Imperial German Navy on off the Irish southern coast.
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The Sinking of the Lusitania and a Refusal to Obey an Order on Board SM U 20