How The news was broke to Donitz when he took over
 

This is how I suspect it went down


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcQpj2XUsc8&NR

British humor...

Funny thing is I find 90% of Monthy Python to be not too funny. I guess it's akin to how this one Brit didn't laugh at a single Norwegian Nemi strip.

This thing was good, though. "This isn't one of those pranksie jokes you play on all the newcomers, is it?":rotfl:

Dönitz: "Can't you do that greeting thing, just once, please".
Both: "...Heil Dönitz..."
Dönitz: "Thanks. That's nice."

A slight OT, but anyone else find the Doenitz´s sentence unfair at Nuremberg? Ten years because he ordered Uboats not to take survivors on board. Even Nimitz from the US navy was defending Doenitz, in pacific the US subs had virtually the same orders. :nope:

Victor's justice:cry:. The "good guys" don't have to stand trial. Hopefully this'll improve over the years so that all war criminals are convicted, but as of now (and even more so back in the sixties), no such luck.

But to order submarines not to take survivors on board when they can do so is not exactly playing it nice.

That's awful debatable ;) There's a lot of good reasons why you wouldn't take on survivors. Space concerns, provisions, danger to your boat and crew from air attack while picking them up, etc

Meknows, meknows. But still.

The exchange in the "Uncut" version of Das Boot, after they left the British survivors in the water:

Captain: "It had to be that way."
Werner: "Why?"
Captain: "What?"
Werner: "Why did it have to be that way?"
Captain: "We barely have room for the fifty men assigned to this boat! How many would you bring on board? One? Ten? A hundred?"

I think one treaty signed before the war said, that if you can't rescue the crew of a ship then you must not sink it. That's a good one, isn't it?:rotfl:

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Hey, I know why it was, OK, I'm just not convinced.

That was prolly the biggest psychological burden for sub crews to leave survivors alone. That's why many subs helped them in the earlier stages by providing supplies and directions. But after continuous attacks on helping subs by mostly American planes IIRC orders had to be changed. That's war...

It was...funny...:shifty: