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SCUTTLED U-BOATS GERMAN SENT TO GAOL LONDON, Feb. 13. The War Crimes Court at Hamburg sentenced Lieutenant Gerhardt Grumpeldt, of the German Navy, to seven years' gaol for scuttling two U-boats in Cuxhaven Harbour when Germany surrendered, says the British News Agency in Germany. The prosecution said the U-boats were of a new design, the exact details of which were unknown to the Allies. Lieutenant Grumpeldt acted on a secret German order.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26078, 15 February 1946, Page 5
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74SECRET DESIGN Otago Daily Times, Issue 26078, 15 February 1946, Page 5
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