Friday, January 21, 2011

Times Have Changed in the German Navy

Germany is set to investigate an alleged mutiny on a naval training ship said to have taken place last year.

The Gorch Fock tall ship was ordered to dock in the Argentine city of Ushuaia to await experts, after reports of a revolt [by cadets] in November.
It wasn't terribly long ago that no German cadet would have dared to speak up, lest any objection be answered by a shot from a Luger.

(The only shipboard mutiny in the U.S. Navy was in 1842.)

3 comments:

  1. Uhm, not exactly. Between the final truce in WW1 and the humiliating armistice signed later, there was a major revolt of the German armed forces -- including major naval mutiny.

    In short, Germany has a history of revolts of its draftee soldiers and sailers, albeit not a recent one. Saying that a mutiny is incompatible with German military culture is thus a bit of an overstretch...

    - Badtux the History Penguin

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  2. My Prussian ancestors would roll over in their graves to see what a bagfull of sissies the Germans are these days.

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  3. A mutiny on a training ship suggests things are rather awry with the training program. Or the trainers.

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