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John Pancoast · 10-02-06, 08:01 PM

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Reading Clay Blair's works for the first time finally. Great stuff. Read this passage tonight, which I found interesting.

"German submariners were delighted with Buchheim's wartime art, photographs, and heroic stories, but they were appalled by his postwar writings and the film. They denounced him for opening the film Das Boot with scenes of a wildly drunken orgy at the officer's club in Lorient; for the negative, defeatist, anti-military tone of the book and film; and for the implied criticism of Donitz. Two U-boat skippers, Karl-Friedrich Merten and Kurt Baberg, were so enraged by Buchheim's "non-fiction" U-boat history that in 1985 they published an entire book (Nein ! So War Das Nicht) pointing out Buchheim's errors and/or misleading statements."

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John Pancoast Ocean Warrior Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Minnysoda Posts: 3,211 Downloads: 501 Uploads: 4	<reviving dead thread> Reading Clay Blair's works for the first time finally. Great stuff. Read this passage tonight, which I found interesting. "German submariners were delighted with Buchheim's wartime art, photographs, and heroic stories, but they were appalled by his postwar writings and the film. They denounced him for opening the film Das Boot with scenes of a wildly drunken orgy at the officer's club in Lorient; for the negative, defeatist, anti-military tone of the book and film; and for the implied criticism of Donitz. Two U-boat skippers, Karl-Friedrich Merten and Kurt Baberg, were so enraged by Buchheim's "non-fiction" U-boat history that in 1985 they published an entire book (Nein ! So War Das Nicht) pointing out Buchheim's errors and/or misleading statements." __________________ "Realistic" is not always GAME-GOOD." - Wave Skipper