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brian brian -> RE: Next quiz (1/12/2012 3:15:18 AM)
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OK for the Axis in North America, the Caribbean is a good guess and my various profs in grad-level WWII courses would probably hand out a partial credit for that, though they would expect a 3 page paper on the politico-social ramifications of Nazi contact with the post-colonial native inhabitants there instead of just a quiz answer. A handful of times there, a U-Boat crew would sun themselves ashore, but this was a designed mission carried out by the German sailors of U-537.
I thought the part about it being in a war museum of a country that did not control the area might lead to a guess of Newfoundland, which was part of the Commonwealth during the war but was not yet an official part of Canada. And actually it happened at a far northern cape in Labrador, where this crew set up an automated weather station that sent data back to Germany. Records of it were re-discovered by a historian writing a history of the Siemens corporation in 1981, and an expedition to the site found the equipment still there. It is now in the Canadian National War Museum:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weather_Station_Kurt
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