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   From: aspqrz@tpg.com.au   
      
   On Mon, 18 Nov 2019 22:06:40 -0800, The Horny Goat    
   wrote:   
      
   >On Sun, 17 Nov 2019 16:39:18 +1100, Phil McGregor    
   >wrote:   
   >   
   >>Not a lot of coastal shipping to protect after the French surrender!   
   >>U-Boats and the KM surface raiders, on the other hand ...   
   >   
   >Are you talking about the British or Germans? If the latter don't   
   >forget that Germany still had the power to evacuate 1/4 million people   
   >(somewhat comparable to Dunkirk) from the Baltic States even in 1945.   
      
   Indeed.   
      
   Two words.   
      
   Wilhelm Gustloff.   
      
   Sure, the Germans had merchant ships in the Baltic. They were *needed*   
   in the Baltic to ship, amongst other things, Swedish Iron ore and   
   supplies for Barbarossa.   
      
   They didn't risk them in the English Channel or North Sea where the RN   
   would have trashed them.   
      
   Phil   
      
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