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  Dig here - Gräv här!
Jag fick precis reda på att Werner Schmidt - som gärna varnar för att Vänsterpartiet och Ung Vänster har tagits över av lömska kommunister - i helig vrede och i sista sekund har lämnat återbud till att uppträda på den sommarkurs i marxistisk och feministisk teori som Vänsterns Studentförbund ordnar på Kvarnby folkhögskola.
Anledningen till eländet är nämligen att Kvarnby folkhögskolas blivande rektor i det förlutna dristat sig att göra sig lustig över Werner Schmidts utspel kring Vänsterpartiets historia, samtid och framtid.
Därför drabbas alltså en hel folkhögskola nu av den lärde mannens bannlysning och får nog klara sig utan Werner framöver.
henke-s.blogspot.com   (1653 words)

  
  Werner Henke - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Werner Henke (May 13, 1909 - June 15, 1944) in Thorn, now Torun, Poland was the commander of the German submarine U-515 during the Second Battle of the Atlantic of World War II.
Henke, of course, reneged on the agreement but upon seeing that their captain had agreed to talk, many of his crew signed similar agreements and lived up to them.
Kapitänleutnant Henke was interned in the interrogation center in Fort Hunt, Virginia.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Werner_Henke   (352 words)

  
 uboat.net - The Men - U-boat Commanders - Korvettenkapitän Werner Henke
Henke was captured when U-515 was sunk at 1510hrs on 9 April, 1944 in the mid-Atlantic north of Madeira at 34.35N, 19.18W by bombs from the US escort carrier USS Guadalcanal and depth charges from the destroyer escorts USS Pope, Pillsbury, Chatelain and Flaherty.
Henke was shot and killed while attempting to escape from the interrogation center at Ft. Hunt, Virginia on 15 June, 1944.
Henke is buried in the Soldiers Cemetery at Ft. George G. Meade, Maryland.
uboat.net /men/henke.htm   (624 words)

  
 Werner Henke   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
While Henke was engaged in warfare, he picked up survivors, fed them, treated them decently and had his ships surgeon set their broken bones.
Had Henke been an Englishman, there would be orgiastic memorial parades held in his honour not to forget the monument in Trafalgar square replete with the cretin Queen reading a 3-minute speech to the inexplicable delight of the over-taxed, exploited "subjects" too stupid to know when they are being taken to the cleaners.
Henke was aware of the fact that numerous German military personnel, whether guilty of any wrong doing or not, had been murdered by allied tribunals and rightfully feared the worst.
litek.ws /k0nsl/detox/Werner_Henke.html   (1234 words)

  
 Korevetten Kapitän Werner Henke, Träger des Ritterkreuz und des Eichenlaubes
Werner Henke was born in 1909 to a middle-class family in Thorn, West Prussia (now Torun, Poland).
Henke's fiery independence and impetuous nature marked a controversial career that featured near-dismissal in 1940 for failing to report to a new duty station on time, and several conflicts with SS and Nazi Party officials that ultimately required the Naval High Command's direct intercession with Heinrich Himmler.
Henke's final accomplishment was to save as many of his crew as possible when the fight became hopeless: 44 of 60 survived to be taken prisoner.
www.stengerhistorica.com /History/WarArchive/Ritterkreuztraeger/Henke.htm   (1048 words)

  
 Werner Henke Biography
Werner Henke was born on May 13, 1909 in the city of Thorn on the Vistula River in what was than West Prussia.
On January 12, 1942, Henke reported to the commercial shipyards of the Deutsche Werft firm in the Hamburg suburb of Finkenwerder where he saw, for the first time, the metal skeleton of the submarine that would be his.
At periscope depth, Henke was attack and depth-charged by HMS Chanticleer, but was able to get off one torpedo which struck the British sloop, killing 31 men and leaving her dead in the water and listing to port.
www.u-515.com /henkebio.htm   (2587 words)

  
 Ahoy - Mac's Web Log - Korvettenkapitan ( granted postumously ) Werner Henke. A top U-Boat Ace.
Henke attacked Convoy TS 37, some 90 miles south of the West African port of Freetown, sinking 8 ships to total 49,456 tons, therby earning himself the Oak Leaves to his already awarded Knights Cross.
Henke was imprisoned in the interrogation centre at Fort Hunt Virginia as a POW, on the 15th.of June 1944, in broad daylight he just walked towards the fence, to slowly climb it.
"Commander Kapitanleutnant Werner Henke, recipient of the Knights Cross with Oak Leaves to the Iron Cross, was killed during an attempt to escape from captivity.
ahoy.tk-jk.net /macslog/WernerHenkeAtopU-BoatAce.html   (546 words)

  
 Prisoners of War - Werner Henke Ceremony   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Richard Himstedt, the German Naval Attache from Washington, D.C., and the Installation Commander at the time, Col. Michael J. Stewart, salute the grave of German submarine commander Werner Henke, a prisoner of war who was shot and killed during an apparent escape attempt.
The most noted of the prisoners buried at Ft. Meade, Henke believed he was wanted by the British as a war criminal.
Due to his mistaken belief, coupled with a concern for the safety of his crew, Henke made what appears to have been a phony escape attempt knowing he would be gunned down.
www.ftmeade.army.mil /Museum/POW_Werner_Henke.htm   (195 words)

  
 Stottler Henke's SimBionic Simulation Authoring Toolkit Receives an Excellence in Learning Award from Brandon-Hall
SAN MATEO, California, December 7, 2004 — Stottler Henke has been honored with a Brandon Hall Excellence in Learning Award for their SimBionic(TM) authoring toolkit which enables non-programmers to build intelligent characters for education and training simulations.
According to Tom Werner, Director of the 2004 Brandon Hall Excellence in Learning Awards, "One judge noted that the marriage of gamer AI and business applications training is a fabulous idea, and that the SimBionic toolkit would make the problem of disengaged learners and improperly targeted learning a thing of the past.
Stottler Henke was named one of the "top 100" companies making a significant impact on the military training industry in 2003 and 2004 by Military Training Technology magazine.
www.stottlerhenke.com /news/pr_simbionic_brandon_hall_award.htm   (540 words)

  
 U-Boat Operations
Werner Henke hit three ships on this patrol, two of these ships were in convoy, both of them were from convoy Torch.
Werner Henke hit ten ships on this patrol, seven of these ships were in convoy, all of them from convoy TS-37.
Werner Henke hit four ships on this patrol, one was from convoy MKS-30.
www.ubootwaffe.net /ops/boat.cgi?boat=515   (778 words)

  
 Lone Wolf; The Life and Death of U-Boat Ace Werner Henke:0806127805:Timothy P. Mulligan:eCampus.com
The story of U-5l5 is closely correlated to the overall conduct of the U-boat war, including assessments of Karl Donitz's strategy, the influence of technological innovations, and the contributions of Allied signal intelligence.
Henke sank twenty-four merchant vessels and two warships before U-515 itself was sunk and he and his crew captured by a U.S. task force in 1944.
Fearing he would be turned over to the British and tried as a war criminal, Henke became the only U-boat captain killed in North America while trying to escape as a prisoner of war.
www.ecampus.com /bk_detail.asp?isbn=0806127805   (191 words)

  
 SS Ceramic (1913) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sea conditions had become very stormy, and lifeboats began to capsize, leaving the people to struggle in the water.
Despite the storm (which was severe enough to be a hazard to the U-boat) the commander Werner Henke had been ordered to return to the location of the sinking to look for the captain, in the hopes of finding out the Ceramic's destination.
Henke was later captured and accused of machine-gunning survivors in the water, but it is likely that the survivors simply drowned in the rough seas.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/SS_Ceramic_(1913)   (352 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Lone Wolf: The Life and Death of U-Boat Ace Werner Henke: Books: Timothy P. Mulligan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
When U-515 was captured by the U.S. and Henke was sent to an interrogation center, he rushed the camp's fence and was shot and killed.
Partly motivated by fear of being tried as a war criminal, Henke, concludes Mulligan, was also a product of Nazi conditioning, which emphasized the duty to choose death when hope of victory was gone.
Captured after his boat was finally sunk in 1944, Werner Henke became the victim of a questionable ruse on the part of his captors and was shot while making an escape so desperate it must be accounted a suicide.
www.amazon.com /Lone-Wolf-Death-U-Boat-Werner/dp/0275936775   (881 words)

  
 U-boat Archive - U-515 - Interrogation Report
U-515, commanded by one of Germany’s U-boat aces, Kapitänleutnant Werner Henke, was sunk at 1512 GCT 9 April 1944 at 34.31 N - 19.29 W. She belonged to the series of 750-ton boats numbered U-501 - U-550 built at Deutsche Werft, Finkenwerder, Hamburg.
Henke had been decorated with the Knight’s Cross of the Iron Cross in December 1942 and the Oak Leaves to the Knight’s Cross on 4 July 1943.
It seems that ashore Henke was particularly disliked and few in the 10th Flotilla and on the staff of the Admiral U-boats could forgive his boundless ambition and egotism.
www.uboatarchive.net /U-515INT.htm   (2556 words)

  
 Ahoy - Mac's Web Log-Korvettenkapitan ( granted postumously ) Werner Henke. A top U-Boat Ace. -
Henke attacked Convoy TS 37, some 90 miles south of the West African port of Freetown, sinking 8 ships to total 49,456 tons, therby earning himself the Oak Leaves to his already awarded Knights Cross.
Henke was imprisoned in the interrogation centre at Fort Hunt Virginia as a POW, on the 15th.of June 1944, in broad daylight he just walked towards the fence, to slowly climb it.
"Commander Kapitanleutnant Werner Henke, recipient of the Knights Cross with Oak Leaves to the Iron Cross, was killed during an attempt to escape from captivity.
www.ahoy.tk-jk.net /macslog/WernerHenkeAtopU-BoatAce.html   (555 words)

  
 S.S Ceramic - Home Page
Henke was ordered by his H.Q. to return to the site of the sinking to try to find the Captain of the Ceramic to find out where she had been bound.
It was reported later that Henke was very upset at the sight that greeted him when he returned to the site of the sinking.
Kapitanleutnant Werner Henke and his crew were landed at Norfolk, Virginia on the 26th April and were transferred 3 days later to Camp Fort George G. Meade in Maryland.
www.geocities.com /mulderspants/S_S_CERAMIC.html   (1101 words)

  
 USS Guadalcanal (CVE-60) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Losing depth control on the afternoon of 9 April, the submarine was forced to surface amid the waiting ships, and was immediately devastated by point blank rocket and gunfire.
As Wildcat fighters from Guadalcanal strafed the submarine, her captain, German ace Kapitaenleutenant Werner Henke, ordered abandon ship and she went to the bottom.
Again on the night of 10 April the task group caught German submarine U-68 on the surface in broad moonlight 300 miles south of the Azores and sank her with depth charges and rocket fire.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/USS_Guadalcanal_(CVE-60)   (1053 words)

  
 Lone Wolf : The Life and Death of U-Boat Ace Werner Henke - Timothy P Mulligan
The story of U-5l5 is closely correlated to the overall conduct of the U-boat war, including assessments of Karl Donitz's strategy, the influence of technological innovations, and the contributions of Allied signal intelligence.
Henke sank twenty-four merchant vessels and two warships before U-515 itself was sunk and he and his crew captured by a U.S. task force in 1944.
Fearing he would be turned over to the British and tried as a war criminal, Henke became the only U-boat captain killed in North America while trying to escape as a prisoner of war.
biblio.com /books/12182061.html   (388 words)

  
 AII POW-MIA InterNetwork
Into that tangled context sailed Werner Henke, a handsome, vain forester's son whose life was a microcosm of German history in the first half of the 20th century.
Henke made no such claim and Munday said little, but the U-boat captain did describe, in low-key fashion, a "gruesome picture" of wrecked lifeboats and "many" soldiers' bodies battered by the storm.
However Henke learned of the Norden broadcast, he somehow got the impression that it was a British effort.
www.aiipowmia.com /inter21/in042601.html   (3578 words)

  
 Werner Henke   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Kapitanleutnant Werner Henke displays his Oakleaves to the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross.
The Northeastern Kentucky Museum has recently purchased a beautiful silver flask presented to Werner Henke by the crew of U-515 on the news that he was awarded the coveted Oakleaves Cluster to his Knight's Cross.
On the links below, you may read about the career of Werner Henke and the successes of U-515 and her crew, and also see more information and photos of the flask.
www.u-515.com   (89 words)

  
 WWII Military History Books: U-Boats, the U-Boat War and the Battle of the Atlantic
Captured after his boat was finally sunk in 1944, Werner Henke became the victim of a questionable ruse on the part of his captors and was shot while making an escape so desperate it must be accounted a suicide.
From this perspective, you ride the wave of the U-Boat success in the early days, learn the advances made by the Allies in convoy technique and sonar, and sink with the U-Boats in their dark days at the end of the war.
Werner's experiences are an incredible metaphor for the entire U-Boat force, and for the entire German armed forces.
www.valoratsea.com /bookstore2.htm   (2416 words)

  
 Daniel V. Gallery - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In March 1944 Task Group 22.3 was formed with the Guadalcanal as the flagship.
On April 9 the task group sank U-515 (commanded by the top U-boat ace Kapitänleutnant Werner Henke).
After a long battle the submarine was forced to the surface among the attacking ships and the surviving crew abandoned ship.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Daniel_V._Gallery   (830 words)

  
 White Star Liner Ceramic
Fifteen of the crew were killed and forty-four including Kapitänleutnant Werner Henke were taken prisoner.
The German prisoners were initially taken to the Naval base in Norfolk, VA for questioning, and were later transferred to Fort Meade in Maryland.
Henke, who spoke perfect English, had worked in Boston in the shipyards before the war.
www.titanic-whitestarships.com /WSL_Ceramic.htm   (636 words)

  
 Lone Wolf — www.greenwood.com
Though the story Mulligan relates is engrossing and action-packed, it is also a carefully documented study that breaks new ground in uncovering the sociological background of Henke and his crew; in short, it is a study in German history as well as a biography of a U-Boat Commander.
The story of U-515 is also closely correlated to the overall conduct of the U-Boat war, including assessments of Karl Donitz's strategy, the influence of technological innovations, and the contributions of Allied signal intelligence.
Henke's confrontation with the Gestapo and a detailed account of the sinking of the passenger liner Ceramic further add to the story, revealing the complex reality behind an image too long dominated by propaganda stereotypes.
www.greenwood.com /catalog/C3677.aspx?print=1   (367 words)

  
 Amazon.fr :  Lone Wolf: The Life and Death of U-Boat Ace Werner Henke : Livres en anglais   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Captured after his boat was finally sunk in 1944, Werner Henke became the victim of a questionable ruse on the part of his captors and was shot while making an escape so desperate it must be accounted a suicide.
Born in 1909, Werner Henke moved west in 1920 to a suburb of Hamburg when the Versailles Treaty ceded Poland a corridor to the Baltic, expropriating his family's property.
Under interrogation, Henke was led to believe that he would be returned to England for trial on trumped-up atrocity charges.
www.amazon.fr /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/english-books/0275936775/reviews   (709 words)

  
 9 April 1944   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
His name was Werner Henke, and the British wanted him for questioning about the British ship Ceramic, which was torpedoed and only one man survived to tell about it.
Henke promised to co-operate with our skipper, if we did not turn him over to the British.
However after we returned Stateside, Capt. Henke tried to escape, and was shot and killed.
homepage.ntlworld.com /andrew.etherington/1944/04/09.htm   (942 words)

  
 et - Full Story
To take one particularly pointed example: German submarine commander Werner Henke was killed on June 15, 1944, after more than a year of intensive interrogation.
Fort Hunts official version of Henkes death: He was shot while trying to escape but not at Fort Hunt.
Instead, the death certificate claims Henke was at the official POW camp at Fort Meade in Maryland.
www.egypttoday.com /article.aspx?ArticleID=1725   (1669 words)

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