GERMAN
SUBMARINES IN THE SOUTH ATLANTIC
The newspaper "France Soir" had the following
account: "Almost 1-1/2 years AFTER cessation of hostilities
in Europe, the Islandic [Icelandic?] Whaler, 'Juliana' was
stopped by a large German U-boat. The Juliana was in the
ANTARCTIC region around Malvinas [now Falkland] Islands
when a German submarine surfaced and raised the German official
naval Flag of Mourning -- red with a black edge.
The submarine commander sent out a boarding party, which
approached the Juliana in a rubber dinghy, and having boarded
the whaler demanded of Capt. Hekla part of his fresh food
stocks. The request was made in the definite tone of an
order to which resistance would have been unwise. The German
officer spoke a correct English and paid for his provisions
in U.S. dollars, giving the Captain a bonus of $10 for each
member of the Juliana crew. Whilst the food stuffs were
being transferred to the submarine, the submarine commander
informed Capt. Hekla of the exact location of a large school
of whales. Later the Juliana found the school of whales
where designated."
The French "Agence France Press" on 25 September
1946, said: "The continuous rumors about German U-boat
activity in the region of Tierra del Fuego [Feuerland, in
German], between the southernmost tip OF LATIN AMERICA AND
THE CONTINENT OF ANTARCTICA are based on true happenings."
There have been stories and books written about Germans
counterfeiting U.S. currency and otherwise obtaining American
money printing plates, which may account for the German
use of American money. The Guinness Book of World Records
says that the "greatest unsolved robbery" was
the disappearance of the entire German treasury at the end
of the war.
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