Servants of evil & A sailor of austria

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Originally Posted by Uncle Goose

I always hated the fact that they picture the U-boat crews as evil demons, these guys just fought for their country, they believed in their leaders without questions.

Servants of evil means evil ws Hitler and the regime, the servants were the soldiers and U-Boat crew members are included. Being pictured as demons when they are serving is controversial. You see how all terrorist suicide bombers are percerved as evil when they explode in Iraq for the same reasons the Nazis fought, all over the world? Or the Ruhanda massacre were genocide was almost effective, were they following orders too? Imagine a few decades from now people start to defend that was wrong, they were just following orders and their bosses were the only ones to blame! Outrageous, right? Oh father time, what can't you do for bad reps...:rotfl: This discussion is a minefield and my personal oppinion and feeling is that they were all evil in the way that in the end of every action is a personal decision, and the decision makers were even more evil. Two wrongs don't make a right they say.
One thing is certain, 30 years ago noone even dared to claim they were not all evil and even the Allies considered summary exectutions, prevented by Churchill when they captured the "guilty" officials.
But we have rules and they make sense, the heads went down the german people was left with heavy shoulders. Not everyone was punished (well in a way they all were) but when people realized Hitler was nuts, wrong and evil i bet many germans had that what have i done feeling..