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RE: Personal hygiene aboard ship...
Posted by: Antonio Veiga ()
Date: March 11, 2001 11:06PM

<HTML>Hi Les

No only in the movies.Due several reasons also in real life the hygiene of U-boat crewmen was not the first of their priorities.
You have to bear in mind that inside a very cramped space like was the pressure hull of the type VII U-Boat (The main German battlehorse of the Battle of Atlantic was a very small boat with approx. only 700 tons of displacement) almost 50 crewmen had to live and work for weeks, together with the equipment, tools, spares, piping, valves, gauges, engines, tanks, torpedoes,ammunition, food, etc.etc.
They were no lax in their hygiene they couldn´t have hygiene.
In a U-Boat there no was showers of bathtubs.Excepting captain, each one of the crewmembers had to sleep almost dressed (and sometimes wet) in a bed (lets call it bed) that was shared with other crewmember while this other one was on duty (hot beds).
The humidity and mould invaded everything.
In this conditions you can imagine was impossible people look net and clean.

In the photo U-35 crewmembers remove mould off their bread, as you can also see in Das Boot

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Best regards





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Personal hygiene aboard ship... Les Hubert 03/08/2001 06:27PM
RE: Personal hygiene aboard ship... George Roumbos 03/10/2001 12:36AM
RE: Personal hygiene aboard ship... Saskia 04/13/2001 09:33PM
RE: Personal hygiene aboard ship... Antonio Veiga 03/11/2001 11:06PM
RE: Personal hygiene aboard ship... Werner Frank 03/25/2001 04:03AM
RE: Personal hygiene aboard ship... ditto ditto 03/25/2001 04:07AM


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