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

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Originally Posted by Curval

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.

Ah....so that's what that scene was about....what was the music that they had played right then, and how did it fit in?

I had noticed that in a couple of scenes, he was in the background reading to another crewmember, and it did sound a bit ....propagandish....