I shed a tear or two
https://youtu.be/ql6zOgjLbFY
A sad day in the U-Boat history... Operation Deadlight - German U-Boat Fleet Surrender 1945 - Derry/Londonderry N.Ireland |
Follow the other links from this one on You Tube. Some amazing videos to be found on U-boats of all Types.
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That video looked like it was made with me in mind!
It featured quite a few shots of "my" boat, U-802, which yes, was a type IX, so it's nice to see the game designers got it right. It's also nice to see that the real U-802 survived to the end, to be scrapped. :wah: But what I liked the most was how the German and British officers were standing around on the pier, chatting and laughing, like they were old friends popped by for a visit. :up: Can't stop watching this kind of stuff! |
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The video that made me shed a tear or two was this doco. It's 2 hours and 34 mins long and highly informative!
https://youtu.be/r-sq0nTaYdk |
And this one.....
WWII Iron Coffins..... radar interception. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ArCh2fmH3Pw |
That was a great document. Nice to see Kretschmer, Topp, Hardegen, Werner not to forget all the other interviewees from the allied side , including Walker's subordinates .
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I learned a great deal (and I know a lot about this subject already).
I enjoyed most the interviews of the ex-captains and crews. I found out that they used 4711 as the cologne to help kill the smell on board, and my wife has a bottle of the stuff (nearly full) in her collection. Now I can smell like a barely washed U-boat crewman too! I love her even more after finding that out. I loved it so much that even though it's 3 or so separate episodes rolled into one and over 2.5 hrs long, I watched it twice! |
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Speaking as someone whose relatives fled Nazi Germany (and those who could not and suffered under its jackbooted heel), I can say that they were a very nasty bunch. Russia under stalin was little different, and it would be like forcing people to choose between the horrible and the terrible.
We know the majority of the crimes the nazis carried out on their own citizens, and we know that Russia was under an iron curtain, thus concealing a lot of their own, but, neither one was the model of good government. |
Hi Ukönig
I respect and understand your feelings, since my family was driven out of their home in 1945 and from the stories my grandmother told me I can imagine how bitter it must be to have to leave your home.
But speeking of Soviet Russia I have to add the following: The western allies knew, that the Soviet leaders were a bunch of murderers. They knew of the war the bolsheviks waged against their own people (before WW2 started) in the 1930s which resulted in millions dead Russians. The bolsheviks killed their own people with pistols, gulags and hunger. But this didn't mattered to the US government then, Roosevelt saw Stalin as good old uncle Joe. You can read this for instance in Victor Kravchencos book "I chose freedom" (1946) or in Orlando Figes, A People's Tragedy. After defecting to the USA, Kravchenco didnt understand why the US were not interested in the suffering of the Russians. In Figes book you can read that the USA exported corn to the USSR in the 1930s to help the starving Russians but eventually found out that Soviet government was exporting their own corn in the same time to buy weapons. The western allies knew that they were teaming up with murdererers. |
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As far as I know the Soviets never rounded up ethnic groups or other races with the sole purpose of exterminating them like rodents. The millions of deaths attributed to starvation are a result of poor collective farming ideas and wasn't done to purposely wipe out a group of people.
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