Attack on Pearl Harbor (film)
Attack on Pearl Harbor is a German film documentary from 2006 by Florian Hartung and Annette Baumeister .
First broadcast: ZDF - ARTE on September 13, 2006
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The attack on Pearl Harbor ( Hawaii ) is imminent. The US military is assuming "no acute threat". On the morning of December 7, 1941, there was a submarine alarm. The destroyer " USS Ward " takes up the chase in the port entrance , fires shots and throws depth charges. The success remains unclear at first. A second submarine is later sighted.
The office of US Admiral Kimmel , the commander in chief of the fleet, classifies the incident too low, as far as we know today. The transmission of the message takes "forever" due to the encryption process.
The discovery of a submarine wreck of the Japanese Navy off the naval port Pearl Harbor in 2005 does not result in a fundamentally new view of the Second World War in the Pacific region .
But the statement that the Japanese armed forces fired the first shot in this theater of war may need to be verified. Because the testimony of an eyewitness (Mr. W. Lehner) is clearly gaining weight.