This is the German account in Eelking's book.
Jerome A. Greene mentions a German account that gives much higher figures: 309 killed and 595 wounded.
According to official West German accounts (perhaps exaggerated) at least 610,000 Germans were killed in the course of the expulsions.
His research led Mearns to believe that the German accounts were accurate.
Recent historians, however, hold to the German account of the ship's sinking.
The Lueneburg manuscript (c. 1440-50) gives an early German account of the event:
German accounts later stated that it was a remnant of an ancient church.
I've read the German accounts of it all, too.
He possible has lied in an affidavit two years before his personal bankruptcy in early 2005, and claimed to have only four German accounts.
Hitler was still transfixed by this possibility in July, according to German historical accounts.
