So I finaly got to see Das Boot.....

Curval · 11-15-05, 03:59 PM

Yea, they didn't have alot of "time" for the First Officer. He was a dedicated Nazi...unlike the captain and the rest of the officers. He also mentioned at one dinner that he was from Mexico City and when someone remrked about what a long way away from home he was he relpied that it was natural for him to serve as he was a German. He then made the CRITICAL mistake of mentioning he was the (step) son of the owner of a plantation owner..."the bosses' son" and seemed to be very proud of that. Given that most Germans had recently survived a grueling depression just before the war started (6 million unemployed) he didn't exactly enamour himself with the other officers.

11-15-05, 03:59 PM	#4
Curval Navy Dude Join Date: May 2005 Location: Bermuda Posts: 177 Downloads: 2 Uploads: 0	Yea, they didn't have alot of "time" for the First Officer. He was a dedicated Nazi...unlike the captain and the rest of the officers. He also mentioned at one dinner that he was from Mexico City and when someone remrked about what a long way away from home he was he relpied that it was natural for him to serve as he was a German. He then made the CRITICAL mistake of mentioning he was the (step) son of the owner of a plantation owner..."the bosses' son" and seemed to be very proud of that. Given that most Germans had recently survived a grueling depression just before the war started (6 million unemployed) he didn't exactly enamour himself with the other officers.