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Subject: Re: German WW I tanks


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Johan Ryheul
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Date Posted: 00:58:12 07/03/02 Wed
In reply to: Shawn 's message, "Re: German WW I tanks" on 20:29:11 07/02/02 Tue
 Hi Shawn,

Didn't know about the story of Fritz Leu, thank you very much for that one !

I have a one or two pictures of the tanks at Charleroi.

However proof or indications of the use of a Beutetank by the Marinekorps Flandern I do not have except this one 'interview' with a former matrose of the Tirpitz Batterie. And even that is a really special story on it's own !

By the end of the war he did get a local girl pregnant but did not know of it. The girl her family couldn't risk a scandal and got her married in real short time with another local, as the matrose was already back to Germany. The man she married has never known that the babygirl they got was not his daughter. He died before his woman did. The German matrose found out he had a daughter when the woman died. However his daughter has never known she was his daughter, although he did meet her a few times, 'being an old friend of her father and mother'.
The girls mother had all that time kept a small wooden carced portrait of the matrose. When se died the portrait returned to the man on it. He did give it to me at the only time that we met, with the demand to keep it here in Flanders and to remember his story. Quite sad I must say !

It looks as the naval units did fight against tanks but not in the Marinekorps Flandern area. So there remains a possibility. Or otherwise they can have asked for a beutetank to see what the possibilities were of this new weapon ?

Best from Johan
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