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On the 19th September 1943, Erich Janowitz, my Great Uncle on my mother's side, died in U-341, a German submarine operating south-west of Iceland. It was the boat, and Erich Janowitz's second voyage. He was 21. Reading Roger Moorhouse's new book was, in part, an attempt by me to find out more about Erich's life in the service of Germany's war machine. There are many books that have looked at

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