Talk:Mauritz Håkan Björnström-Steffansson

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Military Attache rumours and Titanic 'Mock Trial' documents

I haven't included the much repeated claim that at the time of the Titanic disaster, Bjornstrom-Steffansson was a military attache to the Swedish embassy in Washington. I haven't included it because it is unclear to what extent semi-fictional online documents produced by a New York law firm (Anderson Kill), used to introduce students to the US legal system, have influenced the perception of a role which Bjornstrom-Steffansson himself denied.

For example, if you google his name, you will quite easily find an authentic looking letter, which claims to be written by Steffansson when he was residing at the Hotel Gotham in New York, directly after the disaster, and addressed to the counsel for the White Star Line. In fact, this letter is entirely fictional and forms a part of the teaching materials used in Anderson Kill's mock trial.Hogarthianista (talk) 13:13, 19 September 2014 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hogarthianista (talk • contribs) 12:18, 19 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]