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Re: Das Boot - Thomsen's Character - Book and Film
Posted by:
Meg Rosenfeld
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Date: March 05, 2007 05:58AM
Hi Pat!
It isn't Teddy Suhren, but I can't for the life of me remember the name of the real man on whom Thomsen was based. Hunsicker or something like that? anyway, he was thrown into the brig for cowardice in the face of the enemy, and someone brought him a revolver (I think this was standard procedure) so that he could blow his own brains out in his prison cell rather than go through the court-martial. He took advantage of the kind offer. Buchheim makes it quite clear, through what der Alte says, that this man should never have been sent out again in the state he was in.
Teddy Suhren survived and lived quite a while after the war. Admiral Topp attended his funeral on September 5, 1984, according to his book, "Fackeln über dem Atlantik".
I wish I could remember the name of "Thomsen", or even where I might find it; probably it'll come to me at 2:00 a.m.
Cheers,
Meg
It isn't Teddy Suhren, but I can't for the life of me remember the name of the real man on whom Thomsen was based. Hunsicker or something like that? anyway, he was thrown into the brig for cowardice in the face of the enemy, and someone brought him a revolver (I think this was standard procedure) so that he could blow his own brains out in his prison cell rather than go through the court-martial. He took advantage of the kind offer. Buchheim makes it quite clear, through what der Alte says, that this man should never have been sent out again in the state he was in.
Teddy Suhren survived and lived quite a while after the war. Admiral Topp attended his funeral on September 5, 1984, according to his book, "Fackeln über dem Atlantik".
I wish I could remember the name of "Thomsen", or even where I might find it; probably it'll come to me at 2:00 a.m.
Cheers,
Meg