The sinking of Submarine U33

 
 
 

In the final sequence it showed the sinking of a submarine in a Scottish Loch, the plot revolved around British attempts to recover an "Enigma" cipher machine, coupled with a reference to the "Katyn massacre".

It seemed funny that these two events should be linked to two sites no more that a mile apart. 

The link, within the grounds of the German cemetery there are the remains of the crew of U-33. a German submarine that attempted to lay underwater mines in the Clyde estuary.

memorial stone

INDEX I was visiting the cemetery purely to see where those German soldiers and sailors were buried, I got talking to one of the grounds men who related that their were the crew of a submarine interned there.   He described what he had learned about them, as I told him my little story as to where they had been stored.

Wilhelm  V Dretsky

He showed me where they were buried, and I started to look for further information about the event.

The captain of the sub was Wilhelm Von Dresky

 
 
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