Wilhelm Schulz, German submarine commander, WW2
Apr. 26, 1958 - British captain searching for 13 years his saver, the former German submarine-commander Wilhelm Schulz: For 13 years the former captain of the British navy Howard Baker wanted to meet the man who had been such a fair adversary for him and his soldiers. In 1941 the British freighter Tweed had been destroyed by torpedos, near Dakar. Captain Baker and the other surviving soldiers held on to the only lifeboat, floating in the Atlantic. Then the German submarine boat came to help them, the commander carried the wounded persons into the submarine, set the lifeboat straight, provided them with food and gave them the right course to the coast, bidding them goodbye in perfect English. Over and over Captain Baker told this story in his pub in Poole, hoping to find the gentleman submarine commander in order to be able to thank him. This story also was published in a Hamburg newspaper, where the industrial merchant Wilhelm Schulz read it. He was the lost commander of the submarine U124. In summer he will go to England in order to visit Mr. Baker. Photo shows a portrait of Wilhelm Schulz, taken recently. Left: a picture from those days, receiving the Ritterkreuz at sea. He was getting the decoration by means of a wireless message, and because they didn't have a Ritterkreuz (Knight's Cross) on the boat, his fellow soldiers made an emergency decoration out of an E.K.II
