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Re: Das Boot - Setting Sail
Posted by: Meg Rosenfeld ()
Date: May 27, 2003 01:47PM

<HTML>Lothat-Günther Buchheim took quite a few pictures of departing and returning U-Boot crews, as part of the customary ceremonies. One that to me is full of irony on several levels shows a boat running in on Christmas Day; the bearded young officers in the tower are holding up a "Neptune's trident" they'd put together themselves, and hanging from it is an Advent wreath. These were standard issue, as were collapsible Christmas trees (there's one that comes aboard during the film Das Boot) but the inspired looniness of hanging the wreath from a trident--and the grins on their young faces--help to drive home the hopeless stupidity of war.

Meg</HTML>

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Das Boot - Setting Sail Kevin 05/26/2003 11:51AM
Re: Das Boot - Setting Sail J. Brennan 05/27/2003 04:01AM
Re: Das Boot - Setting Sail Steve Roberts 05/27/2003 10:06AM
Re: Das Boot - Setting Sail Meg Rosenfeld 05/27/2003 01:47PM
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