Great link Hitman.
It is funny because I was just reading about U-570 yesterday.
I found it interesting how Otto Kretschmer in the POW camp where the officers of U-570 are sent after their capture, is the one holding a makeshift trial, a council of honour and finds them guilty of cowardice.
from Clay Blair book :
"The Council assumed that when the Germans had defeated and occupied England and recovered German POWs, a German military court would try Rahmlow and Berndt, find them guilty and execute them."
But I have to agree with Kapt Z here, Das Boot is hardly romantic, I mean they puke in empty cans fastened around their necks with wire during the storm ohh and let's not forget the crabs!
And that calls for another quote, still about U-570 after she left Trondheim for her patrol :
"When the boat reached open seas, a large proportion of the crew became desperately seasick. Since only one or two sick men could be accommodated on the bridge at a time, and not for long, most men had to vomit in buckets belowdecks. The retching and the revolting odors inside the confined pressure hull touched off an epidemic of seasickness."
I can't recommend this book enough really, it is a little dry but the wealth of information is simply outstanding.