Friday, January 25, 2008
das u-boot master and commander (a tale)
herr dreizler
A recent find, which should interest you, considerably......
A very excited G.C.C. archivist, a Mister Clarey Breeze, came across a photo of a relative whom I know you suspected of existing during tumultuous times.
Using the latest technics in histrionic cross reference paradigm splicing and dissecting patterns over a double helix formula and filtering it all very very carefully through a cup of tea, his assistant Mrs Heidi Thomas produced the photograph. The Old Breeze declared it accurate and authentic.
( It's here that the connection fails so the photo of this particularly distinguished and very wet U-boat Captain fails. To describe him as a steely eyed example of teutonic rectitude and rat cunning wouldn't do justice to the woodcut figureen said to be a dead likeness of him and a great pipe holder-[refer googleimages:uboatcapatin].)
Yes, your distant second cousin, through your paternal line is one Capt. D.D.S. von Blaquewasser-Shtiffel, late of Gruptminster Bratwurst, Bavaria.
This photo, taken under studio lights at the time of the Atlantic Campaign we reckon was just a few years before his famous tour( winter '41) with the Uber 1st XI.
The records state he held his bat in his first three innings on tour. Wisden's only naval historian concurs he was responsible for sinking many a career with his notorious sweeps.
However, like other legendary attackers of the ball there came a time. And, in a reccy with his preferred Class nine U-boat on an unspecified longtitude he was bowled shortly after taking the crease for the Norwegian blockade in '42, though not before creating some customery havoc through mid-ships against the Convoys, where at some silly point he spat the dummy and the seawater.
Yet, when on a more stable pitch...............
Legend has it that he partnered many a wassermermaid, particularly one famous encounter with nautical consequences.... Leni Reifinschtal in a stand, a very long one in fact, with no runs but many appeals for LBW. This and other stories of his early and subsequent shorter furloughs do credence to the rustic seaman's motto- "no sea to rough ...etc....to tough"
I hope this helps to patch together the dispirate arms of your distinguished family tree. It's just as well this relative gave his life for the Fatherland because the punative actions by Himmler's Henchmen was exacting a terrible revenge on the august ranks of the patrician classes who had no time for the lunatic corporal and the other Fuchers.
Yours
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