Talk:Ernst Lindemann

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I am going mainly by Ludovic Kennedy's account. The external link given here is clearly a partly fictionalised account of the Battle of the Denmark Strait, it gets the names of some of the ships wrong, and I am sceptical of whether we have such a detailed account of what happened on the bridge of Bismarck, we cannot treat it as a reliable source. There are reports of a serious row between Lindemann and Lutjens after the sinking of Hood (which Kennedy is sceptical about) but not before. Lutjens may have made mistakes but he was not a complete fool. PatGallacher (talk) 17:46, 22 January 2008 (UTC)