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In Reply to: Das Schlechtes Boot - Das Hollywood Boot posted by Victor Khomenko on November 19, 2000 at 08:02:19:
Clearly, your expectations were too high, Victor. Pointing out the impossibilities in this flick is just too easy.The film credits a couple of similar incidents in which the British Navy was involved; and there was a minor furor over the fact that the Yanks "made themselves the heroes" instead of the Brits.
However, I read from an authoritative source, that actually the USN did capture a German sub off the coast of Africa and took it under tow back to the US. The American skipper who performed this feat was nearly court-martialed; because USN was under strict orders to sink all German subs. The reason for this (and the only sense in which "U-571" was accurate) is that the US did not want the Germans to believe that the Allies had ever captured an Enigma code machine. Had the Germans known that their code was compromised, they would have stopped using it, and the Brits' heroic code-breaking efforts would have been for naught.
That captured U-Boat, by the way, is on display in a midwestern US city. I think it's in Chicago. One of the very few preserved in the world.
The idea of a non-German crew attempting to operate a U-Boat verges on the suicidal, even if they could read German.
RBB --
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