[Onkel Neal]

Originally Posted by Drebbel

They do not call all sailors Nazis. the call the vessel a Nazi carrier, nothing wrong with that IMHO.

I think too many people are sticking their head in the sand. The uboat force and general kriegsmarine was full of intelligent, well educated, high ranking officers and non-officers. Maybe the average sailor did not have much of a choice. But the high ranking officers made a consious choice to join/fight for the Nazis or not. Most of them unfortunately made the wrong choice and after the war hide behind the phrase "I just was doing my job"

And even those simple brave sailors mght simply be doing there job, but still they where doing the their thing for the wrong side, they where fighting the Nazi war. And if you fight (do the dirty work) for a certain group to make them more powerfull then you belong to that group and are a representative of that group.

Just my 2cts

I agree. Even the least political and most reluctant German sailor was fighting FOR the Nazi regime.

I don't know why calling a German vessel in WWII a "Nazi" vessel should make anyone angry, it's not generally meant as a slight to those honorable Kriegsmarine men who were drowning American, Canadian, and British sailors in the cold Atlantic swells. It's just common usage of the term.

just my opinion,
Neal