Erich Topp interveiw
 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYlk0...eature=related

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Not seen this before. Thanks for the post :up:

Thanks for that,not seen it before,always thought he seemed to be a nice gent :salute:

Very interesting... thanks for sharing!

This is one of the interviews that came bounded in ... Silent Hunter 2!!!! :D

But dargn it, wow I feeld old for being the only one who remembers that! :damn:

No, no Hitman, I remembered it as well. Of course with SH-2 there were the interview and consultancy activities of Erich Topp. They also interviewed another U-boat commander for SH3 (Type IX)- I'm to old to remember :haha: but will post when his names pops up. The project manager of SH3 was present at a subsim conf in Amsterdam and he told me that the U-boat commander was in his 80's but came to assemble the crew at the airport and was very bright for his age like smart Otto in his youth.

Hey rik, good to know I'm not the only old one here :D

the commander who helped them with SH3 was Jürgen Östen: http://www.uboat.net/men/oesten.htm :up: I have all the video interviews with him that were made for the game in my HDD, and IIRC they are still available for download in the SH3 official web (Pity they only asked him general things they could have gotten elsewhere, instead of the technical details that will now be lost after such men die :cry:)

Aces of the deep had some great interviews, hours it seems. Now who feels old?

I was gunna say that, SH2 FTW

"We went full speed ahead with the additions of the engines of the electric machine."

So you could run flank with diesels and get a few more knots out of it with the electric motors too on the surface?

Yes, Östen! Indeed it is very pity that they asked those questions. They should have prepared themselves much better. But after all it was a kind of 'first attempt' and first research (after SH 1, AOD) after a long time from the moment the latest subsim was created. An experiment. I think they should have been able to get better info from Jurgen or Erich then.

Of course we all fantasize what it would have been like if for example Topp would play a mission in SH-5. Should he then become enthousiastic as he was more than 60 years ago? Unfortunately he passed away 91 years old and that I call real old.

Yup.:salute:

Only ever done in extreme emergencies because if you needed to dive your electric pack was greatly diminished.