i have no useful info to share, but i hope you'll consider posting an article here summarizing your research when you're ready; i think it would be fascinating reading. best of luck with your project!
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i had heard about heydrich...how may the world have been differnet if he had continued with his naval career? wonder if the more humane influence of a fellow like donitz would have rubbed off on him? wasn't aware of the other fellow...but a fist fight over a girl seems like a small matter to send a man into combat over...maybe something less extreme like making him spend his leave time i
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i know that several uboat officers got into trouble for their dealings with the fairer sex before the war, but did any find themselves in hot water with bdu or okw during the war for their, um, social activities?
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looks cool! wonder if any of our ubootfahrern will be discovered living in retirement down there?
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for a while there i was watching daily...i've weaned myself off of it, however, and haven't watched in a few months. i also have all 3 versions, but i like the tv series best. also re-read the book recently...i enjoy the book quite a bit, especially when lgb gets to talking about the different fellows sharing his journey with him. still fascinated with hlw...i was born 20 years too
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and if i do make it to munich sometime, we have to arrange to meet up somewhere so i can be educated on the finer points of german beer by someone who is "in the know!"
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"herr"=male honorific, similar to "mister" followed by commander's naval rank; in the case of "das boot," the commander's rank was kapitanleutnant, abbreviated "kaleun", so he was addressed as "herr kaleun", pronounced as "ka-LOIN"
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translated into english, with the original german also available, on uboatarchives.net. an interesting read...this is the patrol that buchheim went on. when they get the message about the run to gibraltar, the comment in the ktb seems to be to be the definition of sarcasm: new patrol assignment received with enthusiasm. and as buchheim indicated in the novel, hlw was a master of understatemen
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hi volker! how was your trip to colorado? i quite agree that peterson made the right choices in going with a german cast, and jp was very well cast; his performance is very impressive. i was just speculating about american actors who would have fit the role...and robert redford just doesn't. spencer tracy did, i think...and so did walter huston, and for the same reasons: a less than m
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i was channel surfing not long ago, and i came across a movie from the 30's with jean harlow and spencer tracy. and as i watched, i started thinking, spencer tracy! of course! he'd have been the perfect american actor to play hlw...both blue eyed redheads, not matinee idol handsome but posessed of a personal intensity which is very compelling, the ability to project a very sympatheti
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he seems almost chameleon-like to me. there are some wartime photos of him where he does look rather older than his years, but there are others where, to me at least, he looks very youthful. i've also seen a photo of him taken some years after the war where he looks very well preserved, graying at the temples but looking quite vigorous and not too weathered, in spite of making a life at se
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