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3 unusual facts about Günther Lütjens


Günther Lütjens

But on 6 April, Flying Officer Kenneth Campbell succeeded in torpedoing Gneisenau and putting her out of action for several months, and Tirpitz was not yet completed.

His comrades nicknamed him "Pee Ontgens" after a character from the book Das Meer (The Sea) by Bernhard Kellermann, which was one of his favorite books.

In the 1960 film, Sink the Bismarck!, Lütjens is portrayed by Karel Štěpánek as egotistical, overconfident and a Nazi enthusiast angered over Germany's humiliation and his own lack of recognition at the end of World War I.



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