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Re: U96, Szenen aus dem Seekrieg
Posted by:
Stefan
()
Date: December 03, 2003 04:54AM
<HTML>Now Meg,
you asked for it, you get it.
(for people with weak nerves, close your eyes before you go on reading)
Sharks and little fishes is a very authentic novell, describing the way of a young german mariner, starting as fisherman, going to the minesweepers and than to the uboats.
It is very direct in the discription of the terror of war and the injuries you can get on sea.
When the sailor was with the minesweepers, he was involved in the saving of sailors from an other minesweeper which was hit by a mine.
As they brought the sailors on the deck they saw that the impact of the mine explosion had pushed the legs below the knee into the part above the knee. The sailors looked more than goblins due to that and beeing on the sea they had to shot them to spare them more hurts.
As he was on an uboat the terror was more than doubled. During an air attack two sailors died. The corpses were taken into two torpedo tubes to bring them back.
As they returned the medics in the harbour grumbled and refused to take the corpses out of the tubes. They inisisted, that this had to be done by members of the uboat crew.
The problem was that the rotten corpses have grown in the tubes during their decomposition and they were so stuck in the tubes that it was impossible to get them out.
One of the medics than helped the sailor and showed him how to use the knife and the bucket......(and gave him a bottle of liquor to drink before)
I can only recommend everyone who is interested in german uboat warfare to read this novell. The author itself was with the uboats and also the story is fictional things like described above realy happend.
Further "nice things" that also were described.
How to get rid of a captain during a storm (with the use of a rope and the ship screw)
Fiffis (Free french forces) and their behaviour towards captured germans and the reaction of the germans.
Normal battles on a fishership.
and so on and so on....
So Meg (and the others) you can open your eyes again.
But this book is very rude compared to other novells about naval warfare, but there is more truth in it in describing how realy awful war was.
Regards
Stefan</HTML>
you asked for it, you get it.
(for people with weak nerves, close your eyes before you go on reading)
Sharks and little fishes is a very authentic novell, describing the way of a young german mariner, starting as fisherman, going to the minesweepers and than to the uboats.
It is very direct in the discription of the terror of war and the injuries you can get on sea.
When the sailor was with the minesweepers, he was involved in the saving of sailors from an other minesweeper which was hit by a mine.
As they brought the sailors on the deck they saw that the impact of the mine explosion had pushed the legs below the knee into the part above the knee. The sailors looked more than goblins due to that and beeing on the sea they had to shot them to spare them more hurts.
As he was on an uboat the terror was more than doubled. During an air attack two sailors died. The corpses were taken into two torpedo tubes to bring them back.
As they returned the medics in the harbour grumbled and refused to take the corpses out of the tubes. They inisisted, that this had to be done by members of the uboat crew.
The problem was that the rotten corpses have grown in the tubes during their decomposition and they were so stuck in the tubes that it was impossible to get them out.
One of the medics than helped the sailor and showed him how to use the knife and the bucket......(and gave him a bottle of liquor to drink before)
I can only recommend everyone who is interested in german uboat warfare to read this novell. The author itself was with the uboats and also the story is fictional things like described above realy happend.
Further "nice things" that also were described.
How to get rid of a captain during a storm (with the use of a rope and the ship screw)
Fiffis (Free french forces) and their behaviour towards captured germans and the reaction of the germans.
Normal battles on a fishership.
and so on and so on....
So Meg (and the others) you can open your eyes again.
But this book is very rude compared to other novells about naval warfare, but there is more truth in it in describing how realy awful war was.
Regards
Stefan</HTML>
