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Originally Posted by BigWalleye
UKönig, could you please give us the source of this account? Thank you. It differs in some small ways from both Blair and Padfield.
Anyone who has tried to play the JFO! mod has experienced the confusion that the stream of conflicting orders from BdU creates. And we gamers suffer no constraint or penalty for getting it wrong! It is difficult to imagine the additional strain placed on a commander in combat.
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My source is an old pulp paperback published in Germany in 1957 by an alleged U-boat officer named "Harald Bush". I say alleged because I haven't found any reliable information about such a person. His book detailing his 'experiences' (read very much like das boot) is called "So war der u-boot krieg", and I saved it from the trash pile one day because I have an unhealthy devotion to the subject. My copy is disintegrating so I am typing it out into e-format, to preserve the narrative. I changed the sentence structure a bit, to avoid blatant plagarism and present it here for your reading pleasure.
I am not surprised that the accounts differ, even slightly. This book does contain the attitude of its German author, even as he tries to remain objective. And several times throughout, he tries to put the Germans off in a slightly better light. For example, he cites that the war started on Sept, 3, 1939 with Britain declaring war first. When the rest of the world knows it started on Sept, 1, 1939 with the illegal invasion of Poland. Thus, the author does not think the attack against Poland was unwarranted, but the continued aggression of the British and Americans was. It makes for an interesting read because of its slightly slanted viewpoint.