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Originally Posted by STEED
The BBC did a good three part series called The Battle of the Atlantic well worth watching.
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I believe I read the book. It had a little sticker talking about the TV series.
The thing about the History Channel, or any channel for that matter, is that they aren't run by professors who's major concern is to maintain credibility and to spread knowledge but is run by businessmen and is primarily designed to produce revenue. Bearing that in mind they will run shows that attract a larger audience sometimes even if they aren't entirely accurate. So what is the lesson here? Never take anything for granted. Always look at information presented to you with a critical eye. Don't just believe the propoganda and always don't be afraid to take an unpopular position about something.
I remember arguing with my History 12 teacher about the motivations of Hitler to erradicate the jews. She said he was just insane. I was rather more partial to the theory that his sociopathy was obcessed with the propoganda spread throughout Germany after WW1 about how the jews were responsible for Germany's loss. That and the fact that he spent influential years as a youth in Vienna, a notoriously anti-semitic city at the time, and considered it the "perfect city". My teacher said it was just insanity and inexplicable. It's never that easy.
Suffice to say I skipped most of that classes cause I couldn't stand my idiotic teacher.