| Kptlt. Neuerburg |
09-09-13 01:03 PM |
From what I've read most U-Boat commanders didn't care too much for the Nazis. In Iron Coffins by Herbert A. Werner sometime after the failed 20th of July plot to kill Hitler, the Nazi party tried using political indoctrination in much of the German military most of which met with failure simply because the men that were pick to do this political indoctrination knew nothing about U-Boat life and most of the time got in way, so much so that the person aboard Werner's boat was confined to the aft torpedo room for much of the voyage (or ordeal) from France to Norway.
There is also a story from the A Higher Call in which members of the Gestapo called upon a fighter group on the Eastern Front looking for "Jews in the squadron" the commander said there where none and that theses Gestapo men where wasting their time. Before the Gestapo men left, the commander said "To be careful up there." The Gestapo men replied "Is it really that dangerous?" to which the commander said "No, but you've just pissed off a whole squadron of fighter pilots and I believe that that's your transport sitting on my runway." I'll have to get the book again to remember who said it and what squadron it was but I think it was Günther Lützow of JG3.
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