The German Navy training ship Gorch Fock in stormy seas
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U-204 entered service on 8 March 1941. She made 3 combat campaigns under the command of Kapitänleutnant Walter Kehl. She sank four merchant ships and one warship with a total displacement of 18,420 tons. She was sunk on 19 October 1941 with the entire crew of 46 near Tangier, southwest of Gibraltar from depth charges by the Royal Navy corvette Mallow and the sloop Rochester
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Stern section of the German battleship Tirpitz.
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William Patrick Stuart-Houston, a UK born half nephew of Adolf Hitler fighting against his uncle’s while being in US Navy. Yep, you read it right.
You can read more here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Stuart-Houston
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Sailors mutiny in Kiel, Germany, October 1918. The mutiny, which occurred in the last months of World War I and led to a general revolution, was fueled by Germans’ dissatisfaction with the way the German government had conducted the war. The sailors took inspiration from the Russian Revolution.
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Cook like a Sailor- Hallig Knerken
Today we go to the galley again and this time we have something sweet to nibble on.
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This recipe is a traditional recipe from the smallest island in the North Frisian Wadden Sea and almost every Hallig and every woman living there once had their own recipe and baked these not very common biscuits for their husbands when they went out to sea to take them with them as a bread substitute. These biscuits were baked twice to make them very durable. It is not known exactly when this type of biscuit appeared, but it has probably been around since the 17th century. And you can bake the Hallig Knerken or Sailor Cookies with the following recipe.
Ingredients
250 g soft butter
250 g sugar
1 heaped tablespoon vanilla sugar
1 tablespoon cardamom
2 pinches of love
1 - 2 pinches of salt
3 eggs
500 g flour
1 tsp ammonium bicarbonate
200 g cream
coarse sugar
The preparation
First beat the butter with the sugar and vanilla sugar in a food processor or with a hand mixer. Then stir in the cardamom and salt.
Beat the eggs and stir them into the other ingredients in the bowl, one at a time.
Then add the flour to the bowl. Mix the staghorn salt with a tablespoon of water, add it too and knead everything thoroughly.
Roll the dough into a ball, wrap in cling film and place in the fridge for about an hour. After the refrigeration time, divide the dough into quarters and form rolls with a diameter of about three centimetres from the pieces.
Cut each roll of dough into ten pieces. Then form a ball from each piece of dough. Now preheat the oven to 240 degrees Celsius, line three baking trays with baking mats or baking paper and get ready to bake.
Now pour the cream into a deep dish and sprinkle the hail sugar on a flat plate. Dip each ball of dough first into the cream and then dip it into the hail sugar. Place all the Knerken on a baking tray lined with baking paper, spacing them further apart.
Bake them now for about 8 minutes. They should not necessarily be brown. As soon as all the biscuits are ready, reduce the oven temperature to 120 degrees. Place all the baked Knerken on end in a shallow baking dish and dry in the oven for another 2 hours.
Now the Hallig Knerken should cool completely on a baking rack. Then pack all the biscuits into tins and store in a cool, dry place. To eat, simply dip them into tea, coffee or warm milk, let them soften a little and then enjoy.
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The crew of a German UC-1 class submarine on deck. Introduced in 1915, the submarines of this class were employed mainly on minelaying duties and carried up to twelve mines. German submarines sank 1,845,000 tons of Allied and neutral shipping between February and April 1917
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German WW2 submariners pose with their frozen main gun, somewhere in the North Sea.
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