It seems an easy question For the German Government to answer. If built between 1930-1945, blow it up, tear it down, fill it ion, bury it—do anything to make it disappear.

As you read in this issue, not only are hotels, bunkers, tunnels, etc on the Obersalzberg being destroyed along with a 1937 train station, but they are again trying to destroy the “Lost Bunker” in Hamburg, which proved more than a match to the dynamite packed around her walls. After the boom, the bunker still stands. What’s next? Why not just leave it alone? Blowing up bunkers, buildings, and tunnels doesn’t change history. It will only make people wonder at the waste of time and money.

Germany Attacked Pearl Harbor?

This past Memorial Day, I was walking through a major department store with my daughter MEAGHAN COOPER (1/4-LIFE-1991) and I told her that the American Flag I had flying at our HQ was the one given us by RONALD REAGAN (1858-LIFE-1991) many years ago. Her face was blank and she asked who is that. I must add at here that she just finished 4th grade and was an Honor Role student all year long -- and to this point, they had not taught the students who was Ronald Reagan. Same for John F. Kennedy; they didn't teach anything about him either. I was dumbfounded!

Another man, standing in the same cashier line, told me that his daughter was also in the 4th grade in another school in the area, and her teacher was telling the students that it was the Germans who attacked Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941!

It is astonishing -- but sadly true; the schools today teach nothing of the history of World War II. Whether you are an American, Canadian, Japanese, German, Italian, British or whatever -- chances are that your country was greatly involved in World War II and this history must be preserved correctly -- and taught honestly in schools of all countries. It is particularly depressing when a child of ten years of age is not taught about the Presidents of the United States and others learn nothing of World War II, which was the defining moment of the 20th century. Okay, so much for my editorial.

BBC Praise

The BBC considers SHARKHUNTERS to be:

“The most respected and the most authoritative source in the world for German U-Boat history.”
--per BBC reporter Graham Pound; November 1996