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Titolo: Come si crea la fuffa.

Girovagando per la Rete mi imbatto in questo articolo:
http://community.livejournal.com/occult/250083.html
In particolare, mi riferisco a questa parte qui (in inglese, sorry):
Scharnhorst" and "Gneisenau" were two 35,000 ton battlecruisers Hitler
ordered built in answer to similar ships being built by France in the
1930's. The twins were very powerful vessels, with 9x11 inch guns and
able to steam 30 knots, However the "Scharnhorst" was known as an
unlucky ship. Trouble first started while still under construction. The
supports holding the giant vessel gave way and she rolled on her side.
Sixty one workers were killed instantly and 110 were wounded and it
took 3 months to lift her. Then at the official launch attended by
Hitler, Goering, Goebbels and a whole host of dignitaries the only
thing missing was the Nazi's newest warship, in the middle of the night
the huge cables holding the massive vessel suddenly parted on their own
and "Scharnhorst" slid down the ways, crashing into two destroyers,
causing a lot of damage.
The 's first major battle was at the seizure of Danzig
where she bombarded the city. However during this action one of her
guns blew up killing nine crewmen. Shortly after this the air system in
another gun turret stop functioning and 12 men were suffocated. Neither
of these incidents were due to enemy action.
On April 9, 1940 came an inconclusive gunfire exchange with "HMS
Renown" though the Germans received the worst of this short fight. In
June 1940 the battle cruisers encountered and sank the aircraft carrier
"HMS Glorious" and 2 destroyers. After this, the twins fled back to
base, missing a golden opportunity. On board a cruiser and a merchant
ship fleeing south had been no other personage than the King of Norway
himself, headed to England and exile.
Morale was terrible on the Scharnhorst. In her first months at sea, she
lost many to death and more to desertion. German sailors were saying
the ship was cursed and that it was only a matter of time before the
jinx struck again. They didn't have to wait long. During the siege of
Oslo, as Nazi battleships poured their fire into the Norwegian port,
the Scharnhorst took more hits than the entire fleet combined. She
staggered and reeled, belching flame and black smoke from more than
thirty wounds before the Gneisenau left the battle to pull her to
safety beyond the range of the shore batteries.
She even encountered disaster on her way home. On the way into port,
"Scharnhort's" radar failed and she blundered into merchant ship
"Bremen" a badly needed troop transport. She crept into the Elbe River
and failed to reveal the world's largest ocean liner directly in her
path in the narrow ship channel. The man on watch sounded the alarm,
but he was too late. He died seconds later in the collision with the
Bremen. Although the Scharnhorst pulled free and continued upstream,
the pride of the German passenger fleet sank on the spot. The Bremen
settled into the mud, where British bombers found her the next day and
destroyed her. The Scharnhorst curse had claimed another victim.
The jinxed ship slipped down the Elbe at night, past the bombed out
hulk of the rusting Bremen, and north toward the Allied shipping in the
Arctic Sea. Attacking the lightly protected convoys should have been an
easy, routine patrol for a dreadnaught with her capabilities, but the
same blackness that shielded the Scharnhorst from British patrols also
shielded a crippled British boat from the Scharnhorst. She never saw
the paralysed smaller craft as she thundered past. It was a fatal
mistake. The ship alerted the rest of the Royal Navy and the British
fleet was immediately in full pursuit. However the Scharnhorst was too
fast and The British lost her in the inky blackness. The British
commander spread out his fleet like a fan. In the tense moments that
followed, a destroyer spotted her, but lost her in the poor visibility
of rough seas. An officer on the "Duke of York" decided to fire a
speculative, almost futile chance as the Scharnhorst sailed out of
range. Miraculously he scored a direct hit. On fire and with seawater
rushing in, she sunk low in the water. More hits quickly followed. In a
matter of minutes, the jinx of the German Navy rolled over on her side
and sank. The Royal navy picked up only 38 survivors. That wasn't
even the end of the curse. Two sailors managed to reach the coast of
Norway in their flimsy rubber raft. As the sailors attempted to warm
themselves by lighting a gas stove they had brought from "Scharnhorst".
The leaky stove suddenly ignited and exploded, killing both. Final
revenge for jinx ship?
Interessante vero? Ma ci sono alcuni "piccoli" particolari.
Prima di tutto non fu lo Scharnhorst che ruppe i cavi al Hindenberg 
Embankment ma il Gneisenau. Leggete sull'ottimo 
www.scharnhorst-class.dk
 
per conferma.
Poi il bombardamento di Danzica. Ne lo Scharnhorst ne lo Gneisenau erano 
  li. Le navi si trovavano a Wilhelmshaven dove facevano da bersaglio ad 
i Wellington della Raf. A Danzica c'era la Schleswig-Holstein (una nave 
molto vecchia, una pre dreadnought).
Quando parla dell'intercettazione del HMS Glouchester si scorda di 
menzionare un piccolo particolare. La Scharnhorst incassò un siluro e 
per questo si ritirò.
Ne lo Scharnhorst ne lo Gneisenau furono impiegati per i bombardamenti 
di Oslo (li venne affondato il Blucher e danneggiato gravemente il Lutzow).
La storia del affondamento dello Scharnhorst sfiora il ridicolo. Fu una 
grandiosa battaglia navale durata diverse ore e non un colpo di fortuna 
sparati alla cieca come fa capire l'articolo.
Questi solo per segnalare i maggiori "orrori" di quell'articolo. 
L'errore sul numero dei sopravvisuti (36 non 38) è veniale. Sono dettagli.
Perché lo scrivo? Perché sono questi articoli che creano la fuffa che 
vediamo in giro. Articoli pessimi, che denotano una conoscenza 
dell'argomento pari a zero.
E queste sarebbero le ricerche di questi "RICERCATORI"?
Il 99% di questo genere di articoli è pieno di questi errori.
-- 
In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, 
stand like a rock. -- Thomas Jefferson


Sembra una nave fantozziana, da come ne parla l'autore.
Sono reali i decessi dei 61 operai?
Comunque  "Guernica" non si presenta come esperto di Storia,
visto che esordisce dicendo che chattava di cose spirituali...
                 Scaramouche
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 visto che esordisce dicendo che chattava di cose spirituali...
Ma secondo te quanti sono in grado di cogliere la differenza.
Sentono parlare della supposta sfiga dello Scharnhorst ed iniziano a 
googlare.
Trovano quell'articolo ed il danno è fatto.
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 Trovano quell'articolo ed il danno è fatto.
Sì sono d 'accordo.I primi 2 link forniti da google
esauriscono per molti la ricerca.Ma penso che
chi s' interessa di storia abbia una sana curiosità
e vada oltre i primi risultati.
                       Scaramouche
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