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In mid-February 1943, around the time of Goebbel’s infamous “total war” speech, I was drafted, barely 16 years old, to serve, as an air force auxiliary (Flakhelfer), with an anti-aircraft battery near Stettin on the Baltic Sea. This was to free the regular crews for service on the Eastern front in a futile attempt to make up for the loss of 300,000 experienced men in the battle of Stalingrad.
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According to other sources, the Metox saga was planted by the Allies to divert attention from the real reason for the increased U-boat losses, namely, the introduction, in March 1943, of a new (10-cm) search radar (H2S) which Metox couldn’t detect.—The Metox was superseded by, among other radar receivers, the Naxos and the Naxos ZM, with an antenna which rotated at 1,300 rpm and with which I had a personal encounter in January 1945.
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At the end of the war, General Eisenhower suddenly found himself with some three million German captives on his hands and he felt he couldn’t possibly treat them all under the Geneva Conventions. So they were placed outside the Conventions.
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Schroeder, M.R. (2015). Radar. In: Xiang, N., Sessler, G. (eds) Acoustics, Information, and Communication. Modern Acoustics and Signal Processing. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05660-9_17
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