Talk:Dampfschiff General von Steuben

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[edit] suicide after the 1st hit — reference requested

"A lot of the wounded soldiers committed suicide, just moments after the first hit."

Sounds very touching, but I was unable to find any confirmation to that. A reference would be mostly welcome, to eliminate the suspicions of original research... BACbKA 09:59, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)

• The original contribution to which this sentence can be traced had been written with so much rhetoric that I am even more suspicious... BACbKA 10:04, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)

• It is also the only contribution by that user! I am removing the sentence altogether from the article. Please add back only if you've got a backing reference... BACbKA 10:06, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Numbers

Antony Beevor on page 88 of Berlin: The downfall 1945 reports that the General von Steuben was torpedoed and sunk on the 12 February after leaving Pillau with 2,680 wounded nearly all of whom drowned. The current figures are not cited from a reference, they ought to be. --Philip Baird Shearer 23:15, 3 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] NPOV

i took this out of the main article as it seemed very emotive

"The Russians knew the ship was carrying women and children and the wounded, but sunk the ship anyway. No one on the Russian submarine was ever prosecuted for a war crime."