ATHENIA SINKING
REPORTED CONFLICT IN GERMANY NAVAL & OTHER LEADERS AT ODDS. HITLER'S ORDER CARRIED OUT. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. LONDON, September 12. It is reported from Copenhagen that a conflict has broken out between the Nazi Naval Staff and the political leaders over the torpedoing of the liner Athenia. The German Foreign Office and other propaganda officials are alarmed over the world reaction. The naval Commander-in-Chief, General-Admiral Raeder, countered the criticism by saying that the only hope of breaking the British blockade lay in unrestricted U-boat warfare and protested against the clumsy efforts of the Minister of Propaganda, Dr. Goebbels, to cast the blame elsewhere. He said that the U-boat commanders' worst fault, if any, was that they had carried out too literally Herr Hitler’s order to sink without warning.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 September 1939, Page 8
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129ATHENIA SINKING Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 September 1939, Page 8
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