Wow! You must be one of the few who has read the book but never seen the movie.
Bear in mind that according to Lothar-Günther Buchheim anyway, the characters in Das Boot were fictional composites of people he had met while serving on U-Boats and surface ships in the Kriegsmarine. Although based on Willenbrock, it's not actually Willenbrock in the novel. It's also my understanding that Buchheim wasn't too thrilled with the movie version of his book, but I guess he had a reputation of being a rather difficult character.
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