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    <pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2003 09:18:53 -0700</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: Commerce Raider Atlantis</title>
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      <author>Siri</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Thanks for posting this, Derek. I've often wondered myself if they were one and the same person, though bits and pieces of info here and there has not supported that idea.

It just goes to show you how books can sometimes repeat erroneous info over and over.

(If I come across more on this I'll post it here).

Siri]]></description>
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      <title>Re: Commerce Raider Atlantis</title>
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      <author>Derek Sullivan</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Since my posting in May I have now established that we have a Bernhard Rogge from the Atlantis and a Walter Rogge at the Marlag und Milag P.O.W. camp, both being Crew 15, and as the name has been used a lot without a first name this has added to the confusion, 
The photographs used in most cases are of Bernhard Rogge, and the tales by the ex P.O.Ws  seem to have added to the confusion.
Hope this info will assist anyone in the future
regards from Merseyside U.K.
Derek]]></description>
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      <title>Commerce Raider Atlantis</title>
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      <author>Derek Sullivan</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Hello from Mersyside U.K. I have only just found your website and I am very impressed! my main interest has been in the R.N. with the BYMS mine sweepers, and I was very interested in the P.O.W. camp at Westertimke (Marlag und Milag Nord) as some BYMS crew men ended up in that camp. The  camp commander in 1945 was a Bernhard Rogge
and he seems to have had a lot of respect   from the British P.O.Ws
I have some press cuttings about him, but then I read in a book named Milag that he was the commander of the commerce raider Atlantis, some reports say that he was a P.O.W in the U.K. after being captured at Scapa Flow in 1918! and that he was impressed with the treatment he received for the short time he was held prisoner. 
Born: 04/11/1899 in Schleswig. 
Died: 29/06/1982 in Reinbek by Hamburg. 
He was famous for his exploits on the commerce raider 
Atlantis in 1940/1, however after the Atlantis was sunk by the Devonshire the book Milag states that he was made commander of the Milag naval prisoner of war camp! and then on 17 April 1945 took responsibility for Marlag as well, surely the camp commander title was a step down, I would have thought that he would have been given another ship to command as I see he became an Admiral after the war. Do we have two Bernhard Rogge ?.Was he ever put on trial for war crimes ? I ask this as I was told that he was released with an apolige as so many ex P.O.Ws and people off the ships that he had sunk wrote in on his behalf but again this is only hear say. 
Most of the info from the web just covers his time on the Atlantis any help 
would be very much appreciated 
Regards from a wet cold Merseyside U.K.
Derek Sullivan
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      <pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2003 15:18:14 -0700</pubDate>
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