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Re: Das Boot - Thomsen's Character - Book and Film
Posted by:
Jean-Noël Muller
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Date: March 09, 2007 08:36PM
Good evening, Meg,
What is more touchy in IWO'character, if it's established that the real person was KL Groth, and I think we can take this for granted, is the political dimension : In the book and in Director's cut (German version ) he is spoken to by der Alte as"our young Hitlerjugend chief"...Strange enough, in the mini-series aired by French TV 20 years back, in french language, he was called " young and slim boy-scout", certainly a problem of political correctness.
Anyhow, in both book and film,he lectures the ensigns during instruction times with KzS Wolfgang Lüth conferences, which were not specially apolitical.
LGB was courageous in some way to describe clearly a person who was not dead at the time of issuance of the book,in such a critical way.
Good night.
Jean-Noël
What is more touchy in IWO'character, if it's established that the real person was KL Groth, and I think we can take this for granted, is the political dimension : In the book and in Director's cut (German version ) he is spoken to by der Alte as"our young Hitlerjugend chief"...Strange enough, in the mini-series aired by French TV 20 years back, in french language, he was called " young and slim boy-scout", certainly a problem of political correctness.
Anyhow, in both book and film,he lectures the ensigns during instruction times with KzS Wolfgang Lüth conferences, which were not specially apolitical.
LGB was courageous in some way to describe clearly a person who was not dead at the time of issuance of the book,in such a critical way.
Good night.
Jean-Noël