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Re: Das Boot: book or movie ?
Posted by:
Wiljan Bakers
()
Date: November 11, 2003 09:48PM
<HTML>Dear Fred,
For what its worth I think the book is good, dispite the guy who wrote it. BUT, without the film it would not have been the bestseller it became, for the film pointed to the book.
Who, but a few of the sub "Incrowd", had ever heard of Lothar Gunther Buchheim before this film was made?
There is much said about Buchheim on this forum. But remeber this, he was part of the Reichs propagandamachinery and nobody forced him to do this. I do not think Herr Buchheim would have protested against his employer, the way he does now, if Germany had won the war. Were was he when the attacks on Hitler took place? There was his change to "correct" his statement he now so elegantly puts. (pardon my English but I hope you catch the drift) I bought books from Buchheim, but I did not buy them for his opinion in them, but for the pictures he made from an Era we all have to be aware of that this will never happen again.
I can do without Herr Buchheims comments, the pictures and history speak for themselves.
Kind regards
Wiljan Bakers</HTML>
For what its worth I think the book is good, dispite the guy who wrote it. BUT, without the film it would not have been the bestseller it became, for the film pointed to the book.
Who, but a few of the sub "Incrowd", had ever heard of Lothar Gunther Buchheim before this film was made?
There is much said about Buchheim on this forum. But remeber this, he was part of the Reichs propagandamachinery and nobody forced him to do this. I do not think Herr Buchheim would have protested against his employer, the way he does now, if Germany had won the war. Were was he when the attacks on Hitler took place? There was his change to "correct" his statement he now so elegantly puts. (pardon my English but I hope you catch the drift) I bought books from Buchheim, but I did not buy them for his opinion in them, but for the pictures he made from an Era we all have to be aware of that this will never happen again.
I can do without Herr Buchheims comments, the pictures and history speak for themselves.
Kind regards
Wiljan Bakers</HTML>
