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Loki
07-23-2010, 08:09 PM
The brave Boer who finally exacted revenge on that disgusting monster Lord Kitchener. :thumb001:



Frederick “Fritz” Joubert Duquesne (sometimes spelled Du Quesne and pronounced in English as “Doo-Cain’’) (September 21, 1877 – May 24, 1956) was a South African Boer soldier, prisoner of war, big game hunter, journalist, war correspondent, Anglophobe, stockbroker, saboteur, spy, and adventurer whose hatred for the British caused him to volunteer to spy for Germany during both World Wars. As a Boer spy he was known as the "Black Panther", but he is also known as "the man who killed Kitchener", since he claimed to have sabotaged and sunk HMS Hampshire, on which Lord Kitchener was en route to Russia in 1916. As a German spy, he went by the code name DUNN. In 1942, he and 32 other members of the Duquesne Spy Ring were convicted in the largest espionage conviction in the history of the United States.


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Grumpy Cat
07-23-2010, 09:30 PM
I'm ashamed that there is a place in Canada named after Kitchener.

Used to be called Berlin until after WWII.

Because nothing says moral superiority like renaming a city that had the same name as a place in Germany, even though the name predates the Nazis, to the name of the guy who invented the concentration camp. :rolleyes: