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German Captain Ignored The Warning - 11 Minutes Later He Was Gone

At 8:41 a.m. on November 12, 1944, German Captain Ignored The Warning – 11 Minutes Later He Was Gone became more than a dramatic line—it became the fate of Kapitän zur See Hans Meyer aboard the battleship Tirpitz. For three years, British forces had tried to penetrate her armor and failed. Submarines, carrier strikes, midget subs—none had finished her. So they changed the rules. Instead of trying to break twelve inches of Wotan steel, they decided to break the ground beneath her. As smoke generators filled the Tromsø fjord, Meyer believed the old defenses would work again. But high above, Lancaster bombers carried 12,000-pound Tallboy bombs designed not just to pierce, but to shatter foundations. When the bombs struck, they tore through deck and hull, detonating with such force that the seabed itself seemed to explode. In minutes, the “unsinkable” giant capsized, trapping hundreds inside. The lesson was brutal and final: when armor cannot be beaten, destroy what supports it—and in eleven minutes, the pride of the Kriegsmarine was gone.