Divers at the wreck of the Lusitania have found four million rounds of US-made bullets in the ship's holds.
So it appears that the Germans were telling the truth, 94 years ago.
When the passenger ship Lusitania went down in May 1915, western media and politicians portrayed it as an attack on a passenger ship, the slaughter of innocent citizens.
Germany maintained that the ship was carrying weaponry as well as passengers, making it a legitimate military target.
The German position, of course, has always been dismissed.
In addition to infuriating the English and becoming a central theme in military recruiting drives, the attack on the Lusitania helped gain Americans' sympathies for the British, culminating in the US entry into the war.
For generations, the sinking of the Lusitania has been taught to schoolchildren as, basically, well a war crime.
That was yesterday's story and, no doubt, and that will be tomorrow's story, but today the facts suggest something different.
Read more in the London Daily Mail
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