Hey guys don't get your panties in a twist because someone says that maybe some of the stuff in the book is made up. Honestly I have no idea, but it is not impossible at all.
The tonnage for instance is definitely not accurate. U-Boats skippers had a tendency to do these overclaims from 30% to 100% sometimes and Werner is no exception.
Same thing when he says, Germany and U-Boats were that close to strangling Great Britain and winning the war. It appears it wasn't so. In part because of all these overclaims but also because Donitz underestimated the allied ships construction tremendously. In Clay Blair book, it actually says that 98% of all merchant ships who crossed the Atlantic during the war made it safely. And during the first two years of the war british merchant tonnage actually increased.
But that's a part that is relatively easy to prove and verify. The personal stuff and what he really did, I have no idea but it would be interesting to know.
So yes he did his duty, survived the war and doesn't seem to have been a nazi so that's definitely worthy of respect but the way some of you people take everything from the book at face value and like it is the second coming of the christ is honestly a little disturbing.
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