@ JS :
Quote:
Originally Posted by JScones
[...] states in response "that many officers in the German military establishment at the time, officers young and old, did not think it necessary to "like" their crews or to take care of them, any more than they accepted the idea of a crew as an extended family and the captain a surrogate father" [...]
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Of course that doesn't mean it was the usual way of taking care of a crew, but I do think there was indeed a certain idea of family among the crew members of the same U-Boot.
Erich Topp himself stated that it was called
« kamaradschaft
» (
companionship).