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Originally Posted by mookiemookie
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I always find it so strange to see Das Boot described as an "anti-war movie."
If anything the message I take away from serious, well-conceived movies about WWII is that quote that JFK erroneously attributed to Edmund Burke:
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“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men should do nothing.”
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You would make a ship sail against the wind and currents by lighting a bonfire under her decks? I pray you excuse me. I have no time to listen to such nonsense.
-attributed to Napoleon Bonaparte (probably paraphrased from
Les Merveilles de la science)