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02-09-2015, 10:20 AM
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Re: RMS Lusitania 1915
It WAS later discovered to be carrying weapons and ammo which means that Germany was well within the Legal Articles of War when sinking her. The U.S. knew this but just used it as an excuse to declare war anyway  |
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02-16-2015, 08:55 PM
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Re: RMS Lusitania 1915
Quite likely actually, the ship sank in only 18 minutes and the lights went out shortly after the torpedo hit, which plunged the lower decks of the ship into darkness making it exceedingly difficult for anyone to get out in time, meaning that many many people went down trapped in the ship. The crew only managed to successfully lower 6 of Lusitania's 48 lifeboats, so many people were plunged into the sea. The water wasn't nearly as cold as in the Titanic disaster, but since it took several hours for help to finally arrive, many people either succumbed to hypothermia, or drowned. Sorry I don't have more photos, they are extremely hard to find. The ones I did get were from Robert Ballard's Lusitania documentary, where he found them locked in a vault in the basement of the Cunard offices or something. The rest of the photos are probably never going to see the light of day  |
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02-21-2015, 09:47 AM
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Re: RMS Lusitania 1915
Sorry man, but that was a big part of what fueled Britain's propaganda war and brought America into the war. There were even newspapers with headers in huge print that read "Only a German could murder children".
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02-21-2015, 11:55 PM
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Re: RMS Lusitania 1915
I must say that those are some beautifully done paintings. I wonder what the world would be like if there had not been a WWI. There may be no Soviet Union. The Middle East may be very different as well as China. The U.S. may have not become the welfare and police state it is today and we may have not had the Great Depression. The possibilities.
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