![]() Nevertheless, these points should not hide the rest of the whole publication. The chapter related to the last mayor of Bordeaux is too laudatory and shows a certain lack of critical spirit. ![]() In addition, there would be other criticisms that this book could bring on. However, mentioning the U-Boat base, even with another name, is a good point. To end up, there is also the famous “you should write to a large audience, so don’t be too specific”.Īnyway, the submarine bases theme’ s is just mentioned in the book in question. There is also the deadline one, that we all have faced. There is the limitation of space one’s, which makes you synthesizes too much your chapter. It either does not mean that you do not have knowledges. Even when you are a specialist and that your editor seriously manages the book, it still does not mean that you cannot do mistakes. Making mistakes is human, moreover when you are not a specialist. Nonetheless, I allow myself doing that recall, as moreover the social networks, some press articles or blog notes, a fine book on the history of Bordeaux has done the same confusion. I am aware my readers already know that and they are not learning anything on this post. Finally, we do not learn anything new in here… Betasom was not the name of the German U-Bunker. Nevertheless, if we want to distinguish well these two bases, we shall write that the Italian base was located on the first tidal basin while the second tidal basin corresponded to the German base. Some even stationed on the first tidal basin – which means inside the Italian base – while the U-Bunker was under construction. Besides, the German U-Boats did not only stationed on the second tidal basin and some were moored on a pontoon along the Garonne. Of course, it is not impossible that the Italian submersibles could have taken benefits of the U-Boat pens’, particularly when Betasom had to stop its activities and when the Italian boats were requisitioned by the Germans. However, where the German submarines stationed? For their maintenance, they used the two dry docks that were located on the first tidal basin. Italian submersibles were just hidden from the Allied planes under nets. The Italian royal marine did not needed the shelter and did not had the means to build such a megastructure. The Regia Marina had not participated to its construction. Unlike what is shared on social medias, it was the Organization Todt that erected the U-Boat Bunker for the German submersibles. Once the U-Boat pens were built, German long range U-Boats’ were sheltered inside. They also had an access to the La Pallice port which was used as a subsidiary base. The Italian submersibles stationed on the first tidal basin. ![]() The entity ceased its activities in September 1943. What is Betasom ?īetasom was a military administrative entity that allowed the Italian sommergibili installation’s in Bordeaux from the month of September 1940. However, Betasom was the telegraphic code name of the 11 th group of Italian submersibles’, whereas the U-Boat Bunker was dedicated to the 12 th U-boat flotilla. Some online publications are mixing up the two submarine bases’ of Bordeaux. These past last months, what I consider as an important confusion has came back once again on the web.
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