The post war period was the time when the press had to start figuring out what was true and what was false in all matters involving the reports that their assorted papers and magazines had printed during the conflict. Admiral Sims of the U.S. Navy caused a stir when he went on record announcing that a particularly odious policy observed by the Germans, widely believed to have been true, was in fact, a falsehood:
“I stated…that barring the case of the hospital ship “Llandovery Castle” I did not know of any case where a German submarine commander had fired upon the boats of a torpedoed vessel…”
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KEY WORDS: WW 1 Propaganda,WW1 German Submarine Abuse Stories 1923,Lies in Wartime 1923
