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the last Uboat captain
Thought I'd post this for you all. This fella looks brilliant, better than me anyway. did check to see if it was posted some where else, heh.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...ry-honour.html |
Good for him! :salute:
On a side note: I hate how some sources keep referring everything WWII-era German as nazi this and nazi that. Silly. :doh: |
Hardegen is the last one left? I had no idea. He was always my favorite. From what I've read, he seems like a true gentleman.
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Really quite sad, but at the same time, Hardegen is someone who deserved to be the last one. He has nothing to apologize for in his military career, and from all I've read, he was definitely a gentleman and a distinguished community leader in his civil life after the war. Always a good time to reflect on the history as it passes from living memory... |
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The U-boat service was actually one of the least Nazi of any Germany military branch during the war they liked jazz and fast women that is very un Nazi. My grandfather used to always talk about that whole notion he used to interrogate German POWs and he said that most of them where not die hards at all. There most certainly where some though but it is very false to call every person that was in the German military during WWII a Nazi. |
Like I mentioned in another thread not too long ago, that's not to say that there weren't plenty of real nazis around the U-boat force. Some of the most famous U-boat commanders definitely were. But as far as I can tell, Hardegen was definitely not one of them.
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Ah yes, I remember reading of his deliberate maneuver to place himself between shore and the Gulfamerica before opening fire with his deck gun, at risk to himself and his crew, in order to avoid the potential of one of his deck gun shots missing the tanker and hitting the shore. He almost paid for it with his boat at the hands of the Dahlgreen, but fortune smiled on him.
Also one of the few to directly criticise Hitler and get away with it! :doh: |
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up after all these years? Like CCIP mentions, we've had these conversations before, but I'll repeat what I said: I'm in no way defending the atrocities committed by the German army during the WWII or anything like that. I just tend to look things objectively and to me, calling the WWII-era Germans as Nazis is a slap to the face o those who simply served their country, some even from 1939 to the war's end without being in anyway connected to the Nazi party. IMHO, the regular German soldiers deserve a bit more respect as what they are getting. |
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There were numerous cases at the end of the war, of German and Allied (mainly British and American) soldiers, pilots, sailors, meeting up with each other, usually through shared experiences or through being a prisoner of war. Adolf Galland with Robert Tuck, Werner Lott with Lord Mountbatten, people who had tried to kill each other, meeting up to share their experiences.
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Herbert Werner,the author of Iron Coffins still alive.
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