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Originally Posted by Kaleun Cook
I don't want to offend anyone, just posting my opinion.
Brave etc. or not - these guys would help nazi germany to kill thousands of british, american and whatsoever nation's sailors for the "Endsieg". Of course young men were forced to serve in the military and maybe had little chance not to do it (although there are countless examples how people found their way around it) but still every sunken ship, every shot plane, every dead enemy soldier supported a system that created the industrial genocide.
Therefor I find any chorus of praise in this context very difficult if not indefensible.
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Look we all know Nazi Germany was evil. Yadda yadda yadda. But we always love to forget that we were real wankers too. I mean between Dresden and Hiroshima we did our share of killing innocents. I'm not understating the Holocaust but, lets have some perspective.
In addition to that, what of the young men who did their duty for their nation, a nation which existed before Hitler? They fought and they died for their homeland and the only reason we will look down on them is because they lost. Unless its a game where we're playing as an SS guard at a death camp I don't think that we need to be playing the "they supported an evil regime" card.
Fact is that out own nations routinely support evil despotic, and even genocidal regimes. The righteous and the evil is an easy game to play but it has little basis in reality.
And lastly, what do the lyrics have to do with glory? I see in them a dark defeatist meaning. If anything it can be seen in the context of U-boats as a metaphor for the very futility that the members of the kriegsmarine fought for.
Okay. End of that.
For my vote for most apt song it would have to be "U-boat" by Kasabian. The song actually begins with the sounds of u-boat screws underwater. And the mood is good for the game too.
